Her temple

Dear, think not that they will forget you:
- If craftsmanly art should be mine
I will build up a temple, and set you
		Therein as its shrine.

They may say: "Why a woman such honour?"
- Be told, "O so sweet was her fame,
That a man heaped this splendour upon her;
		None now knows his name."

by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) , "Her temple", from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, published 1922

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) , "Her temple", op. 14 no. 4, published 1933 [tenor and piano], from A Young Man's Exhortation, no. 4.
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "Dear, think not that they will forget you", published 1927 [baritone and piano], from Five Poems by Thomas Hardy, no. 5.

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