2005
Stars
Composed by 
Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie Text by 
A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman Here and Gone Song Collection
Stars is the third song from Jake Heggie's song cycle Here and Gone. The original text was written by A.E. Housman, a British author and poet.
Text
“Stars, I have seen them fall” by A.E. Housman
Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea,
And still the sea is salt.
Records
2010
Passing By
Raymond Carver, Jake Heggie, A. E. Housman, Vachel Lindsay, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sheet Music
Here and Gone
Heggie, Jake
The Farms of Home, In Praise of Songs that Die, Stars, The Factory Window Song, In the Morning, Because I Liked You Better, The Half-Moon Westers Low
Tenor and Baritone