by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)
The spirit's riddle
Language: English
Comes one: "Here is a tower." Comes one: "A sack of gold." The third holds out a sprig of brier, Just plucked from the young mould. Now, shall I take the tower — So strange a thing Life goes — The gold all bursting out the sack? Or shall I take the rose?
Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Text Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "The spirit's riddle", appears in Wild Cherry [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "The spirit's riddle", op. 165 (Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 1 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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