by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
The garden seat
Language: English
Its former green is blue and thin, And its once firm legs sink in and in; Soon it will break down unaware, Soon it will break down unaware. At night when reddest flowers are black Those who once sat thereon come back; Quite a row of them sitting there, Quite a row of them sitting there. With them the seat does not break down, Nor winter freeze them, nor floods drown, For they are as light as upper air, They are as light as upper air!
Authorship:
- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "The garden seat", appears in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, first published 1922 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Michael (Dewar) Head (1900 - 1976), "The garden seat", 1932, published 1933 [ low voice and piano ], from More Songs of the Countryside, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-17
Line count: 12
Word count: 86