A cottager (O'Sullivan, set by E. Moeran) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The rafters blacken year by year,
And the roof beams under that once were green.
T'was himself that cut them and brought them here,
But who has count of the years between?

And Autumn comes, and its withering,
And Spring again and the fields are green.
Winter and Summer and Autumn and Spring,
Yet who has count of the years between?

The big old clock by the window screen
Keeps count of the hours both day and night.
I mind the time when its face was white,
But who has count of the years between?

Input by Iain Sneddon

Authorship

Seumas O'Sullivan (1879-1958)

The Earth-Lover and Other Poems

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

Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950)

Six Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan

Date added to the website: 2009-06-13.

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