Waiting both

A star looks down at me,
And says: "Here I and you
Stand, each in our degree:
What do you mean to do, -
  Mean to do?"

I say: "For all I know,
Wait, and let Time go by,
Till my change come." - "Just so,"
The star says: "So mean I: -
  So mean I."

by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) , "Waiting both"

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

by Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) , "Waiting both", op. 15 no. 3, published 1936 [baritone and piano], from Earth and Air and Rain, no. 3.
by Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (1908-) , "Waiting both", published 1936 [soprano, tenor, SATB chorus, and orchestra], from Six Country Songs
by Seymour J. Shifrin (1926-) , "Waiting both", published 1974 [mezzo-soprano, flute, piccolo, clarinet, violin, violoncello, double-bass, and piano], from Satires of Circumstance

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