by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1881 - 1927)
In dark weather
Language: English
Against the gaunt, brown-purple hill The bright brown oak is wide and bare; A pale-brown flock is feeding there -- Contented, still. No bracken lights the bleak hill-side; No leaves are on the branches wide; No lambs across the fields have cried; -- Not yet. But whorl by whorl the green fronds climb; The ewes are patient till their time; The warm buds swell beneath the rime -- For life does not forget.
Text Authorship:
- by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1881 - 1927), "In dark weather" [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 Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "In dark weather", op. 33 (1932), published 1933 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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