O wind, why do you never rest

O wind, why do you never rest
  Wandering, whistling to and fro,
Bringing rain out of the west,
  From the dim north bringing snow?

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Authorship

• by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Martin Akerman , "O wind, why do you never rest" [voice and piano], from the collection Kikirikee [
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