A Song of Autumn
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"A Song of Autumn" is a poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon set to music by Edward Elgar in 1892. It was republished in 1907 as one of his Seven Lieder.
[edit] Lyrics
- "Where shall we go for our garlands glad
- At the falling of the year,
- When the burnt-up banks are yellow and sad
- When the boughs are yellow and sere?
- Where are the old ones that once we had
- And where are the new ones near?
- What shall we do for our garlands glad
- At the falling of the year?
- "Child! can I tell where the garlands go?
- Can I say where the lost leaves veer?
- On the brown burnt banks, when the wild winds blow
- When they drift through the dead-wood drear?"
- Girl! When the garlands of next year glow
- You may gather again, my dear;
- But I go where the last year’s lost leaves go
- At the falling of the year.”
[edit] References
- Michael Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0193154145
