To my brother (Sassoon, set by M. Kalmanoff, E. Gregson) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Give me your hand, my brother, search my face;
Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame;
For we have made an end of all things base.
We are returning by the road we came.
  
Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead,
And I am in the field where men must fight.
But in the gloom I see your laurell'd head
And through your victory I shall win the light.

First published in Saturday Review, February 1916, as "Brothers", subsequently revised and retitled

Authorship

Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886-1967)

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

Edward Gregson (1945-)

Five Songs of Innocence and Experience

Martin Kalmanoff (1920-)

Kaddish for a Warring World

Date added to the website: 2008-10-19.

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