The bourne

Underneath the growing grass,
  Underneath the living flowers,
  Deeper than the sound of showers:
  There we shall not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.

Youth and health will be but vain,
  Beauty reckoned of no worth:
  There a very little girth
  Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to contain.

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) , "The bourne"

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

by Alice Macdonald (1837-1910) , "The bourne", <<1866.
by Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937) , "Underneath the growing grass", published 1901 [voice and piano], from Love in Spring-Time, no. ?

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