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On sunny days in our backyard, two little flowers are seen, One dressed, at times, in brightest pink and one in green. The marigold is radiant, the rose passing fair; The violet is ever dear, the orchid, ever rare; There's lovliness1 in wild flow'rs of field or wide savannah, But fairest, rarest of them all are Edith and Susanna.
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View text without footnotes1 note: this is the spelling used in 129 Songs By Charles Edward Ives, edited by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock, 2004.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Harmony Twichell (1876 - 1969) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Two little flowers (and dedicated to them)", 1921 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfredo García) , "Dos pequeñas flores", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 60
En los días soleados se ven en nuestro jardín dos pequeñas flores. Una vestida, a veces, de rosa intenso y la otra de verde. La caléndula está radiante, la rosa, muy bella; la violeta es siempre adorable, la orquídea, siempre exótica; son bellas las flores silvestres del campo o de la extensa sabana, pero las más bellas, las más exóticas de todas son Edith y Susanna.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from English to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2004 by Alfredo García, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954) and by Harmony Twichell (1876 - 1969)
This text was added to the website: 2004-05-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 67