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by Emily Huntington Miller (1833 - 1913)

A song for Little May
Language: English 
Have you heard the waters singing,
	Little May,
Where the willows green are bending
	O'er their way?
Do you know how low and sweet,
O'er the pebbles at their feet,
Are the words the waves repeat,
	Night and day?

Have you heard the robins singing,
	Little one,
When the rosy dawn is breaking—
	When 'tis done?
Have you heard the wooing breeze,
In the blossomed orchard trees,
And the drowsy hum of bees
	In the sun?

All the earth is full of music,
	Little May,
Bird, and bee, and water singing
	On its way.
Let their silver voices fall
On thy heart with happy call:
"Praise the Lord, who loveth all,
	Night and day,
	Little May."

Confirmed with Appleton's School Readers, The Second Reader, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1879, pages 139-140.


Text Authorship:

  • by Emily Huntington Miller (1833 - 1913), "A song for Little May", written <<1879 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "A song for Little May", 1922 [ treble voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-08-07
Line count: 25
Word count: 116

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