The love song of Har Dyal

Alone upon the housetops to the North
I turn and watch the lightning in the sky,
The glamour of thy footsteps in the North.
Come back to me, Beloved, or I die!

Below my feet the still bazar is laid,
Far, far below the weary camels lie,
The camels and the captives of thy raid.
Come back, Beloved, or I die!

My father's wife is old and harsh with years,
And drudge of all my father's house am I.
My bread is sorrow and my drink is tears.
Come back to me, Beloved, or I die!

by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) , "The love song of Har Dyal", from Plain Tales from the Hills, published 1888

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

by A. Davies Adams , "The love song of Har Dyal", published 1921. [voice and piano]
by Frederic Ayres (1876-1926) , "The Song of the Panthan Girl", <<1926, from Three Songs, no. 1.
by Mrs. George Batten , "The love song of Har Dyal", published 1892. [voice and piano]
by Arthur Foote (1853-1937) , "Bisesa's song", published 1902. [voice and piano]
by Tod B. Galloway , "Alone upon the housetops to the North", published 1904 [voice and piano], from Memory Songs, no. ?
by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) , "The love song of Har Dyal", 1901, published 1923, rev. 1958 [soprano and piano], note: arranged 1957-8 for women's unison chorus, violin, violoncello, and harmonium
by Thomas Hunt (fl. 1923) , "The love song of Har Dyal", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954) , "The love song of Har Dyal", 1898? [voice and piano]
by Marshall Rutgers Kernochan (1880-1955) , "The love song of Har Dyal", published 1917. [voice and piano]
by Anthony L. W. Scott (1911-) , "The love song of Har Dyal", published 1966. [SS chorus and piano]

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