by Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864)
Leaf after leaf drops off, flower after...
Language: English
Leaf after leaf drops off, flower after flower, Some in the chill, some in the warmer hour: Alike they flourish and alike they fall, And Earth who nourisht them receives them all. Should we, her wiser sons, be less content To sink into her lap when life is spent?
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Authorship:
- by Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864), no title, appears in The Last Fruit off an Old Tree, first published 1853 [author's text not yet checked 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 Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Last days", published 1927 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Grant Hicks
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