Men fade like rocks (Turner, set by W. Turner) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Rock-like the souls of men 
Fade, fade in time. 
Falls on worn surfaces, 
Slow chime on chime, 

Sense, like a murmuring dew, 
Soft sculpturing rain, 
Or the wind that blows hollowing 
In every lane. 

Smooth as the stones that lie 
Dimmed, water-worn, 
Worn of the night and day, 
In sense forlorn, 

Rock-like the souls of men 
Fade, fade in time; 
Smoother than river-rain 
Falls chime on chime.

Authorship

Walter James Redfern Turner (1889-1946)

In Times Like Glass

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

Walter James Redfern Turner (1889-1946)

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Date added to the website: 2009-01-21.

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