And then the sound of marching armies ‘woke
Amid the branches of the soldier oak,
And tempests ceased their warring cry, and dumb
The lashing storms that muttered, overcome,
Choked by the heralding of battle smoke,
When these gnarled branches beat their martial drum.
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¹ Gimon adds "Still stands the oak."

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913), "The Giant Oak" [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 Katerina Gimon (b. 1993), "Still Stands the Oak", copyright © 2017 [ voice and piano ], from Songs of Trees, no. 3, Graphite Publishing
      Publisher: Graphite Publishing [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]

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