by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
The Blind Boy Matches base text
Language: English
Blind from my birth, Where flowers are springing I sit on earth All dark. Hark! hark! A lark is singing, His notes are all for me. For me his mirth: Till some day I shall see Beautiful flowers And birds in bowers Where ail joy-bells are ringing.
Composition:
- Set to music by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The Blind Boy", 1918 [ voice and piano ], from Mother and Child, no. 5
Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1893
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 47