by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Blows the wind to‑day, and the sun and...
Language: English
Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how! Grey recumbent tombs of the dead in desert places, Standing stones on the vacant wine-red moor, Hills of sheep, and the howes of the silent vanished races, And winds, austere and pure: Be it granted me to behold you again in dying, Hills of home! and to hear again the call; Hear about the graves of the martyrs the peewees crying, And hear no more at all.
A. Voormolen sets stanzas 2-3
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "To S. R. Crockett (On receiving a Dedication)", appears in Songs of Travel and other verses, no. 43 [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 James Brown , "Blows the wind" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Francis) Clive Saville Carey (1883 - 1968), "Blows the wind to-day", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Two "Songs of Travel" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Helen Hopekirk (1856 - 1945), "Blows the wind to-day", published <<1929 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Blows the wind today" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Donald Simpson , "Blows the wind to-day", published 1957 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Voormolen (1895 - 1980), "Grey recumbent tombs", published 1948, stanzas 2-3 [ bass and piano ], from 3 songs on British verse, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-11-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 103