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Three Songs for Girls' or Boys' Voices: nursery rhymes by Percy Bysshe Shelley and anonymous [incomplete]

Song Cycle by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891-1975)


2. A widow bird

Language: English

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Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

    * ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

A widow bird sat mourning for her love
Upon a wintry bough,
The frozen wind crept on above;
The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
No [flow'r]1 upon the ground
And little motion in the air,
Except the mill-wheel's sound.

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1 Treharne: "flowers"; Barratt, Howells: "flower"


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