videocurios | A Soft Day sung by Kay Scragg Contralto Private Recording 78 rpm Acetate @videocurios | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
Here's A Soft Day sung by Kay Scragg Contralto from a Private Recorded 78 rpm acetate metal lacquer record that Is probably the only surviving recording of this song by this very talented contralto singer. If anybody has any information about Kay .scragg can they please leave it in the comments and I will add it the notes of this video.

A Soft Day
by Winifred M. Letts
A soft day, thank God!
A wind from the south
With a honeyed mouth;
A scent of drenching leaves,
Briar and beech and lime,
White elder-flower and thyme
And the soaking grass smells sweet,
Crushed by my two bare feet,
While the rain drips,
Drips, drips, drips from the eaves.

A soft day, thank God!
The hills wear a shroud
Of silver cloud;
The web the spider weaves
Is a glittering net;
The woodland path is wet,
And the soaking earth smells sweet
Under my two bare feet,
And the rain drips,
Drips, drips, drips from the leaves.

Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972) was an English-born writer who spent most of her life in Ireland. She was known for her novels, plays and poetry.