Come little winds (Blackwood, set by E. Elgar) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Wake up, you little Night Winds :
    Blow your best !
    We want you all -
Ha-ha! that's East and West,
    The North Wind too,
She always blows the strongest:
You all must draw your deepest breath and longest,
    With open mouth!

Now go and blow the Haystack out of bed!
Whistle her dreams of straw across the sky
And whirl her canvas skirts about her head -
    You can but try!
Go, sweep her to'ards the Cave, and break her trance:
Thick Mother of the Sprites -
    She must get in:
Even a Haystack's elephantine dance
    Is somewhere thin!
    Is somewhere thin!

Authorship

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)

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

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

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Date added to the website: 2009-02-19.

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