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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: 123

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