by William Soutar (1898 - 1943)
There’s pairt o’ it young
Language: English
There’s pairt o’ it young And pairt o’ it auld: There’s pairt o’ it het And pairt o’ it cold: There’s pairt o’ it bare And pairt o’ it claid: There’s pairt o’ it quick And pairt o’ it dead.
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Authorship:
- by William Soutar (1898 - 1943), no title, appears in Collected Poems, first published 1948 [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 (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "A riddle (Answer: the earth)", op. 84 no. 1, published 1972 [tenor and piano], from Who are these children?, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
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