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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Text 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 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Jackson Cumming (b. 1928), "Here dead we lie", 1963, published 1969 [ medium voice and piano ], from We Happy Few, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Torsten Rasch (b. 1965), "Here dead we lie" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-12
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Word count: 38