When in your sober mood my body have ye laid In sight and sound of things beloved, woodland and stream, And the green turf has hidden the poor bones ye deem No more a close companion with those rhymes we made; Then, if some bird should pipe, or breezes stir the glade, Thinking them for the while my voice, so let them seem A fading message from the misty shores of dream, Or wheresoever, following Death, my feet have strayed.
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First published in Academy, June 1910Text Authorship:
- by Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886 - 1967), "An old french poet" [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 Howard Morgan (b. 1945), "An old french poet", published 1968 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Five Lyric Poems [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-10-19
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