The laugher

    (laughs)
    I'm everywhere,
The universal solvent of despair,
    (laughs)
Ah! that sings away the half
Of ev'ry care because I laugh!
    I laugh

by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)

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

by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) , "The laugher", op. 78 no. 4 (1915), first performed 1915 [soprano and piano], from The Starlight Express, no. 4.

Date added to the website: 2009-02-19.

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