by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)
Thrift
Language: English
To fast from wines, silks, anything, Will spread you feasts indeed; Still you possess the spring, And still The little, wealthy daffodil. To choose and keep the straitened way, You serve, not without wage, Your God, your race, your day; You hold Fast in your hand the ghostly gold.
Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.
Text Authorship:
- by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935), "Thrift", 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), "Thrift", op. 165 (Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 3 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2022-01-22
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