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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
1875 - 1912
Great Britain, England
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15/08/1875 – 01/09/1912), an English composer of part Creole descent who achieved such success that he was once called the "African Mahler".
A requiem - When I am dead my dearest
Song "When I am dead, my dearest", published 1904, for alto and piano, from Six Sorrow Songs, no. 2.
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)
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