Stars

"Stars" is the eighth song of Ernst Bacon's song cycle Quiet Airs. The song sets the poetry of A. E. Housman.

Date: 1952Composer: Ernst BaconText: A. E. HousmanSong Collection: Quiet Airs

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Stars
by A. E. Housman

Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea,
And still the sea is salt.

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