1966
The Dove
Composed by 
Elie Siegmeister
Elie Siegmeister Text by 
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes The Face of War Song Collection
"The Dove" is the fourth song of Siegmeister's The Face of War cycle, which sets five texts of Langston Hughes.
Text
The Dove
by Langston Hughes
…and here is
old Picasso and the dove
and dreams as fragile
as pottery with dove
in white on clay
dark brown as
earth is brown
from our old
battle ground…
–The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, p. 536
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