After the Club‑Dance

Black'on frowns east on Maidon,
   And westward to the sea,
But on neither is his frown laden
   With scorn, as his frown on me!

At dawn my heart grew heavy,
   I could not sip the wine,
I left the jocund bevy
   And that young man o' mine.

The roadside elms pass by me, -
   Why do I sink with shame
When the birds a-perch there eye me?
   They, too, have done the same!

by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) , "After the Club-Dance", from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, in At Casterbridge Fair, no. 3, published 1909

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

by Andrew Downes (1950-) , "After the Club Dance", op. 1 no. 4 (1973), from Casterbridge Fair, no. 4.
by Frederic Goossen (1927-) , "After the Club-Dance" [mezzo-soprano, baritone, and piano], from At Casterbridge Fair, no. 3.

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