Everyone sang

[Everyone]1 suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filed with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white 
Orchards and dark-green fields; on -- on -- and out of sight.

Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror 
Drifted away. ... O but Everyone 
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

by Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886-1967) , "Everyone sang", from Picture-Show, published 1919

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Clara Edwards (1887-1974) , "Everyone sang", published <<1940.
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "Everyone sang" [voice and piano]
by William Henry Harris, Sir (1883-1973) , "Everyone sang", published 1938. [tenor, SA chorus, and orchestra]
by Jake Heggie (1961-) , "Everyone sang", 1998. [baritone and piano]
by Herbert Horrocks , "Everyone sang", published 1955. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Craig Sellar Lang (1891?-1971) , "Everyone suddenly burst out singing", published 1936. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Beatrice Laufer (1922-) , "Everyone sang", published 1925. [SATB (a cappella?)]
by Leonard Rafter (1912-1964) , "Everyone sang", published c1940. [voice and piano]
by Jasper Rooper (1898-?) , "Everyone sang" [SATB chorus, string quartet, and double flute or double piccolo], from Bird Songs and Lovers, no. ?
by Cyril Bradley Rootham (1875-1938) , "Everyone sang", published 1920 [high voice and piano], from Three Song-Pictures, no. ?
by Greta Tomlins (1912-1972) , "Everyone sang", published 1959 [SATB chorus a cappella (or with piano)], from Song of Happiness, no. ?
by May Sabeston Walker , "Everyone sang", published c1939. [voice and piano]
by Howard Wells , "Everyone sang", published 1967. [voice and piano]
by Dorothy I. Williams , "Everyone sang", 1963. [voice and piano]

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