The sea laments The livelong day. Fringing its waste of sand ; Cries back the wind from the whispering shore No words I understand : Yet echoes in my heart a voice, As far, as near, as these The wind that weeps, The solemn surge Of strange and lonely seas.
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Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Echoes", appears in Poems for Children, first published 1930 [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 Rosalie Housman (1890? - 1949), "Echoes" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-04-24
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