1947
Wind Elegy
Composed by 
George Crumb
George Crumb Text by 
Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale Three Early Songs Song Collection
"Wind Elegy" is the third song of George Crumb's song grouping Three Early Songs for mezzo soprano and piano.
Text
Wind Elegy
by Sara Teasdale
Only the wind knows he is gone,
Only the wind grieves,
The sun shines, the fields are sown,
Sparrows mate in the eaves;
But I heard the wind in the pines he planted
And the hemlocks overhead,
“His acres wake, for the year turns,
But he is asleep,” it said.
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