© by Christopher Murray Grieve (1892 - 1978), as Hugh MacDiarmid
Sunny Gale
Language: Scottish (Scots)
The trees were like bubblyjocks [ ... ]
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Confirmed with The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, Volume 1, edited by Michael Grieve and W R Aitken, Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1985, Page 67.
Authorship:
- by Christopher Murray Grieve (1892 - 1978), as Hugh MacDiarmid, "Sunny Gale", appears in Penny Wheep, no. 38, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, first published 1926, copyright © [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 Francis George Scott (1880 - 1958), "Sunny Gale", published 1949 [ voice and piano ], from 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems, no. 16, Bayley & Ferguson for The Saltire Society, Glasgow, page 64 [sung text checked 1 time]
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