A weather cock (Crossley-Holland, set by A. Bliss) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


My breast is puffed up and my neck extended;
I've a fine head and a high waving tail;
Ears and eyes too, but only one foot;
A long neck, a strong beak, a back and
Two sides, and a rod right through my middle.
My home is high above men. When he who moves
The forest molests me, I suffer a great deal of misery.
Scourged by the rainlash, I stand alone;
I'm bruised by heavy batteries of hail,
Hoar frost attacks and snow half hides me.
I must endure all this, not pour out my misery.
The answer is: A Weathercock.

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (1941-)

The Exeter Book

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891-1975)

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