The Country of the Camisards

We travelled in the print of olden wars,
    Yet all the land was green,
    And love we found, and peace,
    Where fire and war had been.
  
They pass and smile, the children of the sword --
    No more the sword they wield;
    And O, how deep the corn
    Along the battlefield!

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "The Country of the Camisards", from Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, published 1879

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

by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "The country song of the Camisards", 1909. [voice and piano]
by Sidney Homer (1864-1953) , "The Country of the Camisards", op. 15 no. 5, published 1904 [voice and piano], from Six Songs from "Underwoods", no. 5.

Date added to the website: 2007-06-14.

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