by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
In the red April dawn
Language: English
In the red April dawn, In the wild April weather, From brake and thicket and lawn The birds sing all together. The look of the hoyden Spring Is pinched and shrewish and cold; But all together they sing Of a world that can never be old: Of a world still young -- still young! -- Whose last word won't be said, Nor her last song dreamed and sung, Till her last true lover's dead!
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Text Authorship:
- by William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903), no title, appears in Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses, in Hawthorn and Lavender, no. 6, first published 1901 [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 Robert Clarence Raybould (1886 - 1972), "In the red April dawn", published 1948. [medium voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by Charles Willeby (1865 - 1955), "In the red April dawn", published <<1940, from Hawthorn and Lavender [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 72