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A summer vacation

Language: English

 Days of joy, how have ye fled?
 Joy immortal, are ye dead?
 Is there nothing that can hold you?
 Can my limp arms not enfold you?
 Days of floating on the stream,
 Softly lapped as in a dream,
 With the white clouds swimming slowly
 In an ether pure and holy!


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

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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