by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
There are seven that pull the thread
Language: English
There are seven that pull the thread - There is one under the waves, There is one where the winds are wove, There is one in the old grey house Where the dew is made before dawn. One lives in the house of the sun, And one in the house of the moon, And one lies under the boughs Of the golden apple tree, And one spinner is lost. Holiest, holiest seven Put all your pow'r on the thread That I've spun in the house tonight.
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First published in Broad Sheet, January 1902Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Spinning song" [author's text not yet checked 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 Edward Elgar, Sir (1857 - 1934), "There are seven that pull the thread", op. 42 no. 3, first performed 1901, from Grania and Diarmid, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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