The pilgrim

A wearied pilgrim, I have wandered here
Twice five-and-twenty, bate me but one year;
Long I have lasted in this world, 'tis true,
But yet those years that I have lived, but few.
Who by his grey hairs doth his lusters1 tell,
Lives not those years, but he that lives them well.
One man has reach'd his sixty years, but he
Of all those threescore, has not liv'd half three.
He lives, who lives to virtue; men who cast
Their ends for pleasure, do not live, but last.

by Robert Herrick (1591-1674) , "On himself"

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

by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "The pilgrim", op. 10 (Fourteen songs) no. 2 (1912) [voice and piano], note: this may be the wrong text for this title

Date added to the website: 2009-01-30.

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