by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986)
The Little Stream
Language: English
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The little stream, winding, Runs on its way to pour itself Into the dying river And the river lives again In the valley The river waits for water From a feeding stream The little stream , winding , Runs on its way to pour itself Into the dying river , And the river lives again In the valley
Confirmed with The Spectator, Volume 131, F.C. Westley, 1923, p.87; Age 10
Text Authorship:
- by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), "The Little Stream", appears in Shoes of the Wind: A Book of Poems, first published 1922 [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 Rachel Devore Fogarty , "The Little Stream", 2018 [ voice and piano ], from Stories I Heard Yesterday, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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