Song

The stars are with the voyager
Wherever he may sail;
The moon is constant to her time;
The sun will never fail;
But follow, follow round the world,
The green earth and the sea;
So love is with the lover's heart,
Wherever he may be.

Wherever he may be, the stars
Must daily lose their light;
The moon will veil her in the shade;
The sun will set at night.
The sun may set, but constant love
Will shine when he's away;
So that dull night is never night,
And day is brighter day.

by Thomas Hood (1799-1845) , "Song", from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems, published 1827

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) Houston Bright (1916-1970) , "The stars are with the voyager", published 1959. [SATB a cappella]
by George Howard Clutsam (1866-1951) , "The stars are with the voyager", published 1904. [voice and piano]
by Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (1878-1958) , "The stars", published 1906 [voice and piano], from Six Romantic Songs
by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) , "The stars are with the voyager" [SSATB a cappella]
by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) , "The stars are with the voyager", 1895. [SATB a cappella]
by Henry Festing Jones , "The stars are with the voyager", published 1889 [voice and piano], from A Second Set of Six Songs
by Sir Alexander Campbell MacKenzie (1847-1935) , "The stars are with the voyager", published 1878 [SATB and optional piano], note: according to Gooch and Thatcher in Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature, this setting is given an erroneous composition date of 1879 in Grove's
by Walter Cecil Macfarren (1826-1905) , "The stars are with the voyager", published c1872. [TTBB a cappella]
by Montague Fawcett Phillips (1885-1969) , "The stars are with the voyager", published 1940. [SSA and piano]
by John Pointer (-1934) , "The stars are with the voyager", published 1891. [four-part chorus of female voices (a cappella?)]
by Henry Thomas Smart (1813-1879) , "The stars are with the voyager", <<1879. [voice and piano]
by Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann (1845-1925) , "The stars are with the voyager", published 1868. [voice and piano]

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