Give me your hand, my brother, search my face; Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame; For we have made an end of all things base. We are returning by the road we came. Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead, And I am in the field where men must fight. But in the gloom I see your laurell'd head And through your victory I shall win the light.
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First published in Saturday Review, February 1916, as "Brothers", subsequently revised and retitledText Authorship:
- by Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886 - 1967), "To my brother" [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 Edward Gregson (b. 1945), "To my brother", 1980, first performed 1980 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Five Songs of Innocence and Experience, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martin Kalmanoff (1920 - 2007), "To my brother", 1972 [ tenor, baritone, SATB chorus, and orchestra ], from Kaddish for a Warring World [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "À mon frère", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-10-19
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Word count: 74