A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and...
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English
A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim,
As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless,
As slow I walk in the cool fresh air
the path near by the hospital tent,
Three forms I see on stretchers lying,
brought out there untended lying,
Over each the blanket spread,
ample brownish woollen blanket,
Grey and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.
Curious I halt and silent stand,
Then with light fingers I
from the face of the nearest,
the first, just lift the blanket;
Who are you, elderly man so gaunt and grim,
with well-grey'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
Who are you my dear comrade?
Then to the second I step -
and who are you my child and darling?
Who are you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming?
Then to the third - a face nor child nor old,
very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory;
Young man I think I know you -
I think this face is the face of Christ Himself,
Dead and divine and brother of all,
and here again He lies.
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by (Robert) Ernest Bryson (1867-1942)
, "A sight in camp", published 1919 [mixed chorus, ad lib side drum, organ, brass, strings], from Drum Taps
by Richard Jackson Cumming (1928-)
, "A sight in camp", 1963, published 1969 [medium voice and piano], from We Happy Few, no. 7.
by Dom Thomas Symons (1887-1975)
, "A sight in camp", published 1928. [medium voice and piano]
by Richard Pearson Thomas (1957-)
, "A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim", from Drum Taps, no. 3.
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