by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Out‑worn heart, in a time out‑worn
Language: English
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh heart again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. Your mother Eire is always young, Dew ever shining and twilight gray; Though hope fall from you and love decay, Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will; And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight; And love is less kind than the gray twilight, And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.
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Note: also sometimes titled "Into the Twilight"First published in National Observer (July 1893), revised same year
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "The Celtic Twilight" [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 Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960), "Into the Twilight", 1917 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Adolphe Coerne (1870 - 1922), "Into the Twilight", <<1922 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Charles Crossley-Holland (1916 - 2001), "In the Twilight", 1945 [ baritone and orchestra ], from Two Mystical Songs for Baritone and Orchestra [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-09-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 124