by Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929)
Fly messenger! through the streets of...
Language: English
Fly messenger! through the streets of the cities ancle-plumed Mercury fly!
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929), no title, appears in Towards Democracy, first published 1883
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960), "Fly messenger", op. 24 no. 3 (1907), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from Four songs, no. 3
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