The Window (song cycle)

George Grove, the secretary of The Crystal Palace, originally suggested a collaboration between Tennyson and Sullivan on a German-style song cycle, in English, but similar to Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin.

On October 17, 1866, Grove and Sullivan dined with Tennyson at his home on the Isle of Wight, where they began to discuss the piece.

By this time, however, Millais had sold the drawings he had prepared, except for one, and he was too busy to work any further on the project.

[5] The songs were finally published early in 1871 and included the twelve poems by Tennyson, eleven of which Sullivan had set to music, just the one illustration by Millais, and the following preface by Tennyson: 1 Sullivan did not set this song, but it is included in the score as poetry.

[7] Baritone Francis Loring and pianist Paul Hamburger included the cycle in their album "Sullivan Songs" (1980).