When the day darkens,
When dusk grows light,
When the dew is falling,
When Silence dreams....
I hear a wind
Calling, calling
By day and by night.
What is the wind
That I hear calling
By day and by night,
The crying of wind?
When the day darkens,
When dusk grows light,
When the dew is falling?

Author's note: "There is a wind that has no name." (Gaelic Saying.)

Text Authorship:

• by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "The unknown wind", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1901 [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "The unknown wind", op. 74 (Six Sets of Five Songs Each for Voice and Pianoforte, Set III) no. 2 (1927) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Harald Genzmer.
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