by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
The only son
Language: English
The lark will make her hymn to God, The partridge call her brood, While I forget the heath I trod, The fields wherein I stood. 'Tis dule to know not night from morn, But [greater]1 dule to know; I can but hear the hunter's horn That once I used to blow.
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1 Ives: "deeper"
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
1 Ives: "deeper"
Authorship:
- by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), from the verse at the top of chapter eleven in The Light That Failed, first published 1891 [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 Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "The only son", 1898? [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 51