Bright sun, hot sun, oh, to be Where beats on the restless sea! To hear the sirens of the deep Chaunting old Ocean’s floods to sleep! And shadowed wave to sunlit wave Call from the music-haunted cave! There, with still eyes, their watch they keep, While, at horizon mark, a ship, With cloudlike sails glides slowly on, Smalls, vanishes, is gone.
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Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Gone" [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 Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Gone", 1989, copyright © 2017, first performed 2004 [ soprano and oboe ], from Bells and Grass -- 5 songs for soprano and oboe, no. 2, E. C. Schirmer Music Company, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2016-03-01
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