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Malcolm Lawson
1849 - 1918
Great Britain, England
| M.L. Lawson |
Malcolm Leonard [Malcolm] Lawson (1849 - 1918), an English composer, born in London, studied in London, France and Germany.
| Author: | Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans |
| Source: | Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland |
Hereafter
| Period: | Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1893 |
| Musical form: | song |
| Text/libretto: | Christina (Georgina) Rossetti (1830 - 1894) |
"Hereafter", published 1893, for voice and piano, in the collection First Album of People's Songs and others.
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
Christina Rossetti (from Goblin Market and other Poems, published 1862)
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
Christina Rossetti (from Goblin Market and other Poems, published 1862)
| Chr. Rossetti (text) |