Deep sleeps the Winter, Cold, wet, and grey; Surely all the world is dead; Spring is far away. Wait! the world shall waken; It is not dead, for lo, The Fair Maids of February Stand in the snow!
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Confirmed with Cicely Mary Barker, Flower Fairies of the Winter, Penguin Random House Children's UK, 2020.
Text Authorship:
- by Cicely Mary Barker (1895 - 1973), "The Song of the Snowdrop Fairy", appears in Flower Fairies of the Winter [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 Meta Overman (1907 - 1993), "The snowdrop" [ voice and piano ], from Four Flower Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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