by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
Gray hills, gray skies, gray lights
Language: English
Gray hills, gray skies, gray lights, And still, gray sea -- O fond, O fair, The Mays that were, When the wild days and wilder nights Made it like heaven to be! Gray head, gray heart, gray dreams -- O, breath by breath, Night-tide and day Lapse gentle and gray, As to a murmur of tired streams, Into the haze of death.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses, in Hawthorn and Lavender, no. 48, first published 1901 [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 Charles Albert Lidgey (d. 1924), "Gray hills", published 1909 [voice and piano], from A Song of Life [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 60