For remembrance (Shanks, set by C. Gibbs) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Let us remember how we came 
To Fletching in the trees, 
Where stood the high and misty down 
Between us and the seas. 

Let us remember how we crossed 
Ouse, Adur, Arun, three 
Slight rivers rolling in their broad 
Green valleys to the sea. 

Let us remember most of all 
When this bright air no more 
We breathe, what young and morning oaths 
On the high hills we swore.

Authorship

Edward Shanks (1892-1953)

The Queen of China and Other Poems

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

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)

Date added to the website: 2009-03-21.

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