© by Maurice Lindsay (1918 - 2009)
A Bairn's Prayer at Nicht
Language: English
The starns crack the lift tae let licht in [ ... ]
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Modern English translation (A child's prayer at night), also by the author:
Modern English translation (A child's prayer at night), also by the author:
The stars crack the sky to let light in. So please may the holes let out my sin.
Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Lindsay (1918 - 2009), "A Bairn's Prayer at Nicht", appears in At the Wood's Edge, Scottish nursery rhyme, first published 1950, 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 Thea Musgrave (b. 1928), "A Bairn's Prayer at Nicht ", 1953 [ voice and piano ], from A Suite o' Bairnsangs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-22
Line count: 2
Word count: 18