© by Richard W. Thomas (b. 1939)
The worker
Language: English
My father lies black and hushed [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Richard W. Thomas (b. 1939), from Black Fire. An Anthology of Afro-American Writing, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012), "The worker", from Stimmen, no. 17. [text verified 1 time]
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Line count: 14
Word count: 76