If Truth In Hearts That Perish

Text by A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad Song Collection

"If Truth In Hearts That Perish" is a song by Beverly Benjamin Cole. It is the third in a set of eleven poems from A. E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad". If interested in sheet music, please email jackmor@umich.edu

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If truth in hearts that perish
Could move the powers on high,
I think the love I bear you
Should make you not to die.

Sure, sure, if stedfast meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.

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