A young moon comes with silver feet And passing down the quiet street Upon the roadway still and white She spills her pools of silver light Along the thatch among the trees Spreading her silver tapestries Till ev'ry wooded place is made A fairyland of light and shade And houses in the hamlet seem Like castles in a land of dream
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Authorship:
- by John Irvine (1903 - 1964), appears in A Voice in the Dusk, first published 1932 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Moon magic", op. 91 no. 4 (1938), published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from A voice in the dusk, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
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