Since I Lost You

Since I Lost You (2009)

Duration: approx. 5 mins

Since I Lost You is a setting of ‘Elegy’ by English author and poet D.H. Lawrence. It forms a part of the song cycle ‘This Too Shall Pass’.

Range - Ab3 to Bb5

Difficulty - Advanced

This work is also available for Clarinet and Piano.

Elegy

Since I lost you, my darling, the sky has come near,

And I am of it, the small sharp stars are quite near,

The white moon going among them like a white bird among snow-berries,

And the sound of her gently rustling in heaven like a bird I hear.

And I am willing to come to you now, my dear,

As a pigeon lets itself off from a cathedral dome

To be lost in the haze of the sky, I would like to come,

And be lost out of sight with you, and be gone like foam.

For I am tired, my dear, and if I could lift my feet,

My tenacious feet from off the dome of the earth

To fall like a breath within the breathing wind

Where you are lost, what rest, my love, what rest!

-D. H. Lawrence