by William Soutar (1898 - 1943)
Day is düne
Language: English
Lully, lully, my ain wee dearie: Lully, lully, my ain wee doo: Sae far awa and peerieweerie Is the hurlie o' the world noo. And a' the noddin pows are weary; And a' the fitterin feet come in: Lully, lully, my ain wee dearie, The darg is owre and the day is düne.
Confirmed with Poems of William Soutar: a new selection, ed. by William Russell Aitken, Scottish Academic Press, 1988, page 110.
Authorship:
- by William Soutar (1898 - 1943), "Day is düne", appears in Collected Poems, first published 1948 [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 Ronald Stevenson (b. 1928), "Day is düne" [high voice or medium voice and piano], in Child Education, Spring 1968 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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