A Book of Beasts

Song Cycle by Peter Charles Arthur Wishart (1921 - 1984)

?. The cow  [sung text not yet checked]

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The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart.
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.

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First published in Magazine of Art, July 1884
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?. Cat‑Goddesses

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A perverse habit of cat-goddesses
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  • by Robert Graves (1895 - 1985), "Cat-Goddesses", from New Yorker, March 1953, copyright ©

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?. Bird of Paradise

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At sunset, only to his true love
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?. Flying crooked  [sung text not yet checked]

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The butterfly, the cabbage white
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