D. Lilburn sets stanzas 1-3, 5-6

Confirmed with Denis Glover, Selected poems, edited by Bill Manhire, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995, pages 32-33.

Text Authorship:

• by Denis Glover (1912 - 1980), "The magpies", copyright © [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 Douglas Lilburn (b. 1915), "The magpies", 1954, published 2016, stanzas 1-3,5-6 [ chorus and piano ], Wellington (NZ), Promethean Editions. Verified by listening to performance from SOUNZ website. [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Christopher Marshall (b. 1956), "The magpies", published 1994 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from To the Horizon : 10 Settings of New Zealand poems, no. 5, Dunedin, N.Z. : Vaia'ata Print [sung text not yet checked]

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