Nobody, nobody told me, What nobody, nobody knows But now I know where the Rainbow ends I know where there grows A Tree, that's called the Tree of Life I know where there flows The River of All-Forgottenness And where the lotus blows, And I - I've trodden the forest, where In flames of gold and rose, To burn and then arise again, The Phoenix goes. Nobody, nobody told me, What nobody, nobody knows: Hide thy face in a veil of light, Put on thy silver shoes, Thou art the Stranger I know best, Thou art the sweet heart who Came from the land between Wake and Dream Cold with the morning dew.
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Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956) [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 Richard Rodney Bennett (1936 - 2012), "The Song of the Wanderer", 1986 [ voice or unison chorus and piano ], from Dream-Songs, no. 1, confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
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