by Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871 - 1944)
I found him on the mesa
Language: English
I found him on the mesa When the long fight was done. He lay like stricken sapling Beneath the setting sun. I found him on the mesa, A dead and stranger foe. Why should my heart go leaping, Then beat so sad and slow?
Authorship:
- by Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871 - 1944) [author's text not yet checked 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 Wakefield Cadman (1881 - 1946), "I found him on the mesa", from Music of the American Indian, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2021-10-28
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