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by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod

Give up thy milk to her who calls
Language: English 
Give up thy milk to her who calls
Across the low green hills of Heaven
And stream-cool meads of Paradise !

Across the low green hills of Heaven
How sweet to hear the milking call,
The milking call i' the meads of Heaven:

Stream-cool the meads of Paradise,
Across the low green hills of Heaven.

Give up thy milk to her who calls,
Sweet voiced amid the Starry Seven,
Give up thy milk to her who calls !

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Text Authorship:

  • by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "Milking Sian", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1896 [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 Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "A milking Sian", 1907, published 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs], no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960), "St. Bride's milking song", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Six Spiritual Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Phyllis Campbell (1891 - 1974), "Milking Sian" [ voice and piano ], Wirripang Pty Ltd [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Milking Sian", op. 33 (1944) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Read , "Milking Sian", published 1950 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by E. Roy Thompson , "Milking Sian", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-05-23
Line count: 11
Word count: 76

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