John Millington Synge: Prelude
Still south I went and west and south again,
Through Wicklow from the morning till the night,
And far from cities, and the sights of men,
Lived with the sunshine and the moon’s delight.
I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds,
The gray and wintry sides of many glens,
And did but half remember human words,
In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.
Set to music for voice and piano in 1925 by Aloys Fleischmann, aged 15. Prelude is the earliest surviving work.
