The Land of Lost Content is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 1920–21 by John Ireland (1879–1962).
It consists of settings of six poems by A. E. Housman from his 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad.
[1][2] A typical performance takes about 11 minutes.
The songs are, with Roman numerals from A Shropshire Lad, and first lines where Housman did not title his poem:[3] The title of the cycle is taken from Housman's poem "Into my heart an air that kills", XL in A Shropshire Lad: That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
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