1949
If You Should Go
Composed by 
William Grant Still
William Grant Still Text by 
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen Songs of Separation Song Collection
"If You Should Go" is the fourth song of William Grant Still's song cycle Songs of Separation.
Text
If You Should Go
by Countee Cullen
Love, leave me like the light,
The gently passing day;
We would not know, but for the night,
When it has slipped away.
Go quietly; a dream,
When done, should leave no trace
That it has lived, except a gleam
Across the dreamer’s face.
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