© by George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996)

Language: English 
I know you, Tomas the shepherd-boy
 [ ... ]
This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

Confirmed with The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown, edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray: London, John Murray, 2006, pp. 210-11.

Composition:

    Set to music by Peter Maxwell Davies (1934 - 2016), "One star at last" [ chorus ], note: the setting uses only the words of the First King, Priest, and Third King

Text Authorship:

  • by George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996), "Stars: A Christmas Patchwork", appears in Voyages, first published 1983, copyright © 2005

Go to the general single-text view

This text was added to the website: 2018-06-17
Line count: 91
Word count: 451