From the Hills of Dream

Across the silent stream
    Where the slumber-shadows go,
From the dim blue Hills of Dream
    I have heard the west wind blow.

Who hath seen that fragrant land,
    Who hath seen that unscanned west?
Only the listless hand
    And the unpulsing breast.

But when the west wind blows
    I see moon-lances gleam
Where the Host of Faerie flows
    Athwart the Hills of Dream.

And a strange song I have heard
    By a shadowy stream,
And the singing of a snow-white bird
    On the Hills of Dream.

by Fiona Macleod (1885-1905) [pseudonym] , "From the Hills of Dream", from From the Hills of Dream, published 1896

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

by Creighton Allen (1900-1969) , "From the Hills of Dream", published 1948. [voice and piano]
by Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (1883-1953) , "From the Hills of Dream", 1907. [voice and piano]
by Henry Eichheim (1870-1942) , "Across the silent stream", published <<1940.
by Cecil Forsyth (1870-1941) , "From the Hills of Dream", published <<1940.
by Helen Hopekirk (1856-1945) , "From the Hills of Dream", published <<1929 [medium voice and piano], from Six Poems by Fiona Macleod, no. ?
by Reginald Redman (1892-1972) , "From the Hills of Dream", published 1948. [tenor, SATB chorus, timpani and strings]

Date added to the website: 2008-08-18.

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