1983
A row of thick pillars (op. 11, no. 3)
Composed by 
Lowell Liebermann
Lowell Liebermann Text by 
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane Three Poems of Stephen Crane, op. 11 Song Collection
"A row of thick pillars" is the final song from Lowell Liebermann's Three Poems of Stephen Crane, op. 11 song cycle.
Text
A row of thick pillars
By Stephen Crane
A row of thick pillars
Consciously bracing for the weight
Of a vanished roof
The bronze light of sunset strikes through them,
And over a floor made for slow rites.
There is no sound of singing
But, aloft, a great and terrible bird
Is watching a cur, beaten and cut,
That crawls to the cool shadows of the pillars
To die.