A winter hedgerow

The wintry wolds are white; the wind
    Seems frozen; in the shelter'd nooks
    The sparrows shiver; the black rooks
Wheel homeward where the elms behind
    The manor stand; at the field's edge
    The redbreasts in the blackthorn hedge

Sit close and under snowy eaves
The shrewmice sleep 'mid nested leaves.

by Fiona Macleod (1885-1905) [pseudonym] , "A winter hedgerow", from Poems, published 1912

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

by Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960) , "Hedgerow", published 1925 [medium voice and piano or string quartet], from Three Impressions, no. ?
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "A winter hedgerow", op. 67 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set I) no. 5 (1926). [voice and piano]

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