Farewell to barn and stack and tree

"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell to Severn shore.
Terence, look your last at me,
For I come home no more.

"The sun burns on the half-mown hill,
By now the blood is dried;
And Maurice amongst the hay lies still
And my knife is in his side.

"My mother thinks us long away;
'Tis time the field were mown.
She had two sons at rising day,
Tonight she'll be alone.

"And here's a bloody hand to shake,
And oh, man, here's good-bye;
We'll sweat no more on scythe and rake,
My bloody hands and I.

"I wish you strength to bring you pride,
And a love to keep you clean,
And I wish you luck, come Lammastide,
At racing on the green.

"Long for me the rick will wait,
And long will wait the fold,
And long will stand the empty plate,
And dinner will be cold."

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) , from A Shropshire Lad, no. 8, published 1896

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

by Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) , "Farewell to barn and stack and tree", published 1924 [baritone and piano], from Ludlow Town, no. 2.
by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893-1976) , "Farewell to barn and stack and tree", published 1934 [baritone and piano], from Seven Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. ?

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