Gone were but the winter cold

Gone were but the winter cold,
And gone were but the snow,
I could sleep in the wild woods
Where primroses, primroses blow.

Cold's the snow at my head,
And cold at my feet;
And the finger of death's at my e'en,
Closing them to sleep.

Let none tell my father,
Or my mother so dear;
I'll meet them both in Heaven
At the spring of the year.

by Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)

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

by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "Gone were but the winter cold", 1909, published 1918, from English Lyrics, set 10 no. 2
by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym] , "The spring of the year" [partsong]

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