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by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

When I set out for Lyonnesse
Language: English 
 When I set out for Lyonnesse,
   A hundred miles away,
   The rime was on the spray,
 And starlight lit my lonesomeness
 When I set out for Lyonnesse
   A hundred miles away.

 What would bechance at Lyonnesse
   While I should sojourn there
   No prophet durst declare,
 Nor did the wisest wizard guess
 What would bechance at Lyonnesse
   While I should sojourn there.

 When I came back from Lyonnesse
   With magic in my eyes,
   [None managed to surmise
 What meant my godlike gloriousness]1,
 When I came back from Lyonnesse
   With magic in my eyes!

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•   G. Finzi •   C. Gibbs 

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1 Finzi: "All marked with mute surmise / My radiance rare and fathomless" ; Gibbs: "All marked with mute surmise / What meant my godlike gloriousness"

Text Authorship:

  • by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", appears in Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces, first published 1914 [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 Frederic Austin (1872 - 1952), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1927 [ baritone and piano ], from Three Wessex Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960), "A Song of Lyonnesse", 1923, published 1924 [ voice and strings or piano ], from Three Hardy Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by James Burton (b. 1974), "When I set out for Lyonnesse" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1953 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", op. 15 no. 2, published 1936 [ baritone, piano ], from Earth and Air and Rain, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Lyonnesse", published 1921 [ voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Sidney Harrison (b. 1903), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1929 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", op. 120 (Five songs) no. 2 (1938) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Irwin Heilner (b. 1908), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", 1966 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (b. 1908), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1963 [ soprano, tenor, satb chorus, orchestra ], from Six Country Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Tom M. McCourt , "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1937 [ 2-part chorus of treble voices, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Katharine E. O'Brien , "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1947 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Lyonnesse", op. 109 (1946) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Lyonnesse", op. 654 (1965) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles A. Speyer , "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1920 [ voice, piano ], from Six Selected Lyrics [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leslie Walters (1902 - 1998), "When I set out for Lyonnesse", published 1957 [sung text not yet checked]

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