Love Blows As the Wind Blows

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Love Blows As the Wind Blows is a song cycle for voice and piano or string quartet composed in 1911{{ndash}}12 by George Butterworth (1885{{ndash}}1916). It sets four poems by William Ernest Henley from his Book of Verses (1888). The composer orchestrated three songs from the cycle in 1914, omitting "Fill a Glass with Golden Wine".{{Allmusic

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A performance typically takes 12 minutes. The songs are as follows:{{cite web

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1. "In the Year That's Come and Gone"
2. "Life in Her Creaking Shoes"
3. "Fill a Glass with Golden Wine"
4. "On the Way to Kew"