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    Which musical piece was inspired by the poem about Mrs. Gill?

    Question #98870. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Aug 25 08 12:27 PM)


    BRY2K

    		Could you be referring to (The) Mocking Fairy set to music by Walter Leigh (1905 - 1942)?

    http://www.ciao.se/Walter_Leigh_Piano_Music_and_Songs__347689

    Here is an excerpt from the original poem:

    The Mocking Fairy


    'Won't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill?'
    Quoth the Fairy, nidding, nodding in the garden;
    'Can't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill?'
    Quoth the Fairy, laughing softly in the garden;
    But the air was still, the cherry boughs were still,
    And the ivy-tod neath the empty sill,
    And never from her window looked out Mrs. Gill
    On the Fairy shrilly mocking in the garden.

    http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-mocking-fairy/




    Aug 25 08, 1:29 PM

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