by Max Ellison (1914 - 1985)
Catch Down the Wind
Language: English
Catch down the wind. Unhook it from its tangle in the trees. Perhaps it searched for leaves, But they have gone. Some partridge hunters came, and when they left, The trees were bare./It may have been the frost. I do not know the cause or where. The wind is lonesome now. I hear it crying somewhere in the trees. And starlight's drifting low along the hill. Catch down the wind and walk with me.
Text Authorship:
- by Max Ellison (1914 - 1985), "Catch Down The Wind", appears in The Underbark, first published 1969 [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 Jeraldine Saunders Herbison (b. 1941), "Catch Down the Wind", copyright © 1978/2003 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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