I shall come no more - Bastable, Jennifer

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"A setting for SATTB (or SATBarB for light baritone) of part of Francis Ledwidge's poem The Vision on the Brink. Optionally, the second tenor/baritone line may be sung by a soloist in first and last verses. Although written some years before Ledwidge fought in the First World War, the text is so clear a presage of his death that the piece is suitable for performance on {{Cat|Armistice Day"

◈ Genre / Form → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SATTB ¶ Language → English

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 88657

Editor Jennifer Bastable

Posted 2026-03-17

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

To-night when you sit in the deep hours alone, And from the sleeps you snatch wake quick and feel You hear my step upon the threshold-stone, My hand upon the doorway latchward steal, Be sure 'tis but the white winds of the snow, For I shall come no more. And when the candle in the pane is wore, And moonbeams down the hill long shadows throw, When night's white eyes are in the chinky door, Think of a long road in a valley low, Think of a wanderer in the distance far, Lost like a voice among the scattered hills. And when the moon has gone and ocean spills Its waters backward from the trysting bar, And in dark furrows of the night there tills A jewelled plough, and many a falling star Moves you to prayer, then will you think of me On the long road that will not ever end.