© by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972)
Night‑Fliers
Language: English
The birds that soar break space [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972), copyright © [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 Henry Dixon Cowell (1897 - 1965), "Night-Fliers", L. 827 (1956), first performed 1983 [voice and piano], from Three Songs on Poems of Padraic Colum, no. 3. [text verified 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2009-10-31
Line count: 16
Word count: 80