by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
If all were rain and never sun
Language: English
If all were rain and never sun, No bow could span the hill; If all were sun and never rain, There'd be no rainbow still.
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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 Martin Akerman , "If all were rain", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Kikirikee [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2006-01-26
Line count: 4
Word count: 25