Here dead we lie because we did not choose (Housman, set by (Ernst Bacon, Richard Jackson Cumming)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

Here dead we lie because we did not...

Language: English

Here dead we lie because we did not choose
  To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
  But young men think it is, and we were young.

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Authorship

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), "Here dead we lie", appears in More Poems, no. 36, first published 1936 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Nothing much to lose", c1970. [
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by Richard Jackson Cumming (b. 1928), "Here dead we lie", 1963, published 1969 [medium voice and piano], from We Happy Few, no. 4. [
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-12
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