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In The Bleak Midwinter

8th December 2020 OldTrout Arts, Music 0
© Swiss Bob 2020

This is a poem written by Christina Rossetti, set to music first by Gustav Holst in 1906 and then by Harold Darke in 1911.

This is by Darke :


 

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