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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]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-01-31
Line count: 12
Word count: 70

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