Ione, Dead the Long Year

  	Empty are the ways,
Empty are the ways of this land
And the flowers
Bend over with heavy heads.
They bend in vain.
Empty are the ways of this land
Where Ione
Walked once, and now does not walk
But seems like a person just gone.

by Ezra Pound (1885-1972) , "Ione, Dead the Long Year", from Lustra, published 1916

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by William Strickland (1914-) , "Ione, Dead the Long Year", published 1961. [medium voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2008-07-21.

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