by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Circumstance
Language: English
Two children in two neighbor villages Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas; Two strangers meeting at a festival; Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall: Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease; Two graves grass-green beside a gray church-tower, Wash'd with still rains and daisy-blossomed; Two children in one hamlet born and bred: So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), "Circumstance", appears in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, first published 1830 [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 Ernst Perabo (1845 - 1920), "Circumstance", op. 13. [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2011-05-03
Line count: 9
Word count: 66