Art thou gone forever, Elaine...?

Art thou gone forever, Elaine
Thou with the starry eyes
In a twilight of tangled hair?
In the lonely night I complain
Till the memoried moon avise
With her lesson of dumb despair

Oh, for the voice to calm
My heart that so beats astray
Get it to rhythm aright
Oh, for thy love to calm
The wounds of the warring day,
And the fever of friendless night!

Would I had taken Elaine
Kiss’d the two starry eyes
Tangled the tangled hair
Laugh for a day at rain
Laugh for a day to be wise
And let the silly world stare.

by Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer (1852-1923)

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by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) , "Art thou gone forever, Elaine...?", 1896. [voice and piano]

FRE French (Jean-Pierre Granger)

Date added to the website: 2009-11-03.

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