THINK NO MORE, LAD is a setting of Alfred Edward “A.E.” Housman’s (1859-1936) poem by violinist, music educator and composer Bernard Brindel (1912-1997) for Vocal Solo with Piano High and Low Editions. Duration: 2:23

SATB-Pno setting is AP-10079

TTBB-Pno setting is AP-01748

Vocal Solo-Orchestra setting is AP-04077

Think No More, Lad

 by A. E. Housman

Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly: 

Why should men make haste to die? 

Empty heads and tongues a-talking 

Make the rough road easy walking, 

And the feather pate of folly 

Bears the falling sky. 

Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking 

Spins the heavy world around. 

If young hearts were not so clever, 

Oh, they would be young for ever: 

Think no more; ’tis only thinking