by Teresa Hooley (1888 - 1973)
Our Lady of Violets
Language: English
Mary Mother leaned from heaven, Gazed upon my little wood, Where the trees stood up to praise her In the winter solitude. Snow lay drifted on the branches, And the undergrowth was snow-- White, all white, and far flung purple Where the shadows slept below. Mary Mother smiled in heaven, Bent and brooded o'er the earth: White as snow His stainless life was From the day I gave Him birth. Mary Mother sighed in heaven (Long tree-shadows show a cross): Purple glooms athward for sorrow, Pain and sacrifice and loss. Lovely thoughts of white and purple Mary wove one winter day; Where they fell, sprang up in April Violets, violets all the way.
Authorship:
- by Teresa Hooley (1888 - 1973), "Our Lady of Violets" [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 Cyril Meir Scott (1879 - 1970), "Our Lady of Violets", published 1920 [voice and piano], London: Elkin [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-05-02
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Word count: 113