The Comet at Yell'ham

It bends far over Yell'ham Plain,
  And we, from Yell'ham Height,
Stand and regard its fiery train,
  So soon to swim from sight.

It will return long years hence, when
  As now its strange swift shine
Will fall on Yell'ham; but not then
  On that sweet form of thine.

by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) , "The comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham", from Poems of the Past and Present, published 1902

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by Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) , "The Comet at Yell'ham", op. 14 no. 5, published 1933 [tenor and piano], from A Young Man's Exhortation, no. 5.

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