F. DELIUS. AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF THE SONG "WOHL WAREN ES TAGE DER SONNE", HITHERTO LOST, 1890

a setting of a poem by Emmanuel Geibel, notated for piano and voice in black ink on four and two systems of three staves each, with many deletions, alterations and corrections in ink and pencil, 2 pages, folio (c.35 x 27cm), 12-stave song-writing paper, browning to top margin, small tear to lower margins,

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UNPUBLISHED.  Not in Threlfall; the Delius scholar mentions this song only in passing in his 1977 catalogue. This "mysterious" song still remained "unidentified and unlocated" in his Frederick Delius: A Supplementary Catalogue (1986). Delius had composed another Geibel setting in 1888, "O schneller mein Ross" (Threlfall V/7).