by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
A diamond or a coal?
Language: English
A diamond or a coal? A diamond, if you please: Who cares about a clumsy coal Beneath the summer trees? A diamond or a coal? A coal, sir, if you please: One comes to care about the coal What time the waters freeze.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [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 Henry George Ley (1887 - 1962), "A diamond or a coal?", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Kikirikee [sung text not yet checked]
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Line count: 8
Word count: 44