Pour out your light, O stars, and do not hold
  Your loveliest shining from earth's outworn shell --
Pure and cold your radiance -- pure and cold
  My dead friend's face as well.

The first of three in a row.

Text Authorship:

• by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Requiem", written 1916, appears in Severn and Somme, first published 1917 [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 John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "Requiem" [voice and piano] [ sung text not verified ]

This text (or a part of it) is used in a work

• by Robert Hugill , "Requiem" [baritone and piano], from Four Songs to Texts by Ivor Gurney, no. 2.
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This text was added to the website: 2010-09-07
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