by Gordon Bottomley (1874 - 1948)
Out of the high skies birds are falling
Language: English
Out of the high skies birds are falling, White birds, dark birds, sailing down, No bird crying, no bird drawling ; Leaves in Autumn, petals in Spring, So would wander and slant and wing, But no tree ever went up so far To hide a mountain and a star And loose its leaves gone brown.
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Authorship:
- by Gordon Bottomley (1874 - 1948), no title, appears in Chambers of Imagery, in Night and Morning Songs, no. 1, first published 1912 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Out of the high skies", op. 128 (Five songs) no. 1 (1938) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-18
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