1993
He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven (op. 40, no. 4)
Composed by 
Lowell Liebermann
Lowell Liebermann Text by 
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40 Song Collection
"He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven" is the fourth song of Lowell Liebermann's A Poet to His Beloved,, op. 40 song cycle.
Poem Text
He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven
By William Butler Yeats
I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young
And weep because I know all things now:
I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung
The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough
Among my leaves in times out of mind:
I became a rush that horses tread:
I became a man, a hater of the wind,
Knowing one, out of all things, alone, that his head
May not lie on the break nor his lips on the hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
Must I endure your amorous cries?
Records
2003
Liebermann: Complete Chamber Music For Flute
Lowell Liebermann, William Butler Yeats