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by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

The curtains now are drawn
Language: English 
The curtains now are drawn,
And the spindrift strikes the glass,
Blown up the jagged pass
By the surly salt sou'-west,
And the sneering glare is gone
Behind the yonder crest,
While she sings to [me:]1
"O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,
And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,
And death may come, but loving is divine."

I stand here in the rain,
With its smite upon her stone,
And the grasses that have grown
Over women, children, men,
And their texts that "Life is vain";
But I hear the notes as when
Once she sang to me:1
"O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,
And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,
And death may come, but loving is divine."

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Patterson 

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1 Patterson: "me."

Text Authorship:

  • by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "The curtains now are drawn", first published 1913 [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 Roy Buckle (b. 1926), "The curtains now are drawn", subtitle: "Nocturne" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Andrew Downes (1950 - 2023), "The curtains now are drawn", op. 29 no. 5 (1983), from Old Love's Domain, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Robert H. Patterson , "The curtains now are drawn", published 1927 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 139

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