On your midnight pallet lying

On your midnight pallet lying,
Listen, and undo the door:
Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow,
Pity me before. 

[In]1 the land to which I travel,
The [far]2 dwelling, let me say-
Once, if here the couch is gravel,
[In]1 a kinder bed I lay,
And the [breast]3 the darnel smothers
Rested once upon another's
When it was not [clay]4.

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) , no title, from A Shropshire Lad, no. 11, 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 Robert F. Baksa (1938-) , "On your midnight pallet lying", from Housman Songs, no. 3.
by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-) , "On your midnight pallet lying", c1933.
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "On your midnight pallet", 1907, published 1998. [voice and piano]
by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893-1976) , "On your midnight pallet lying", published 1925-7 (1960) [tenor and piano], from Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. ?

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