The Farms of Home

The Farms of Home is the first song from Jake Heggie's song cycle Facing Forward/Looking Back. The original text was written by A.E. Housman, a British author and poet.

Date: 2005Composer: Jake HeggieText: A. E. HousmanSong Collection: Here and Gone

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“The farms of home lie lost in even”

By A.E. Housman

 

The farms of home lie lost in even,

I see far off the steeple stand;

West and away from here to heaven

Still is the land.

 

There if I go no girl will greet me,

No comrade hollo from the hill,

No dog run down the yard to meet me:

The land is still.

 

The land is still by farm and steeple,

And still for me the land may stay:

There I was friends with perished people,

And there lie they.

Recordings

Passing By

(Raymond Carver, Jake Heggie, A. E. Housman, Vachel Lindsay and Edna St. Vincent Millay)

2010

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