To fight aloud is very brave (Dickinson, set by E. Laderman) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 To fight aloud is very brave,
 But gallanter, I know,
 Who charge within the bosom,
 The cavalry of woe.

 Who win, and nations do not see,
 Who fall, and none observe,
 Whose dying eyes no country
 Regards with patriot love.

 We trust, in plumed procession,
 For such the angels go,
 Rank after rank, with even feet
 And uniforms of snow.

Authorship

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Poems of Emily Dickinson

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

Ezra Laderman (1924-)

Magic Prison

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