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By What Lost Campfire

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Sheet music for "By What Lost Campfire," for mezzo soprano. The poem is written by Arthur Sampley and the music is by George Minter. The lyrics are "By what lost camp fire/ what lone height did deserts streching [sic] far, what/ comrades faces framed in light guide western star./ Up slopes I shall not/ climb again down trails the grasses hide, past/ camps where sleeping friends have lain too late to/ ride. to one dark peak a-/ gainst the sky on which the faint trail ends./ guide star and camp fire till I spy those fire lit friends."

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5 p. ; 35 x 111 cm., folded to 35 x 29 cm.

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Sampley, Arthur & Minter, George June 1948.

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Sheet music for "By What Lost Campfire," for mezzo soprano. The poem is written by Arthur Sampley and the music is by George Minter. The lyrics are "By what lost camp fire/ what lone height did deserts streching [sic] far, what/ comrades faces framed in light guide western star./ Up slopes I shall not/ climb again down trails the grasses hide, past/ camps where sleeping friends have lain too late to/ ride. to one dark peak a-/ gainst the sky on which the faint trail ends./ guide star and camp fire till I spy those fire lit friends."

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5 p. ; 35 x 111 cm., folded to 35 x 29 cm.

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"June 1948, Denton, Texas."

Original document was one continious sheet; it was scanned as individual pages with the front and back of each page in order.

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Sampley, Arthur & Minter, George. By What Lost Campfire, score, June 1948; New York City, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth207751/: accessed January 19, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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