From "A Child's Garden of Verses"

Song Cycle by (Robert) Houston Bright (1916 - 1970)

?. Whole duty of children [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table:
At least as far as he is able.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Whole duty of children", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885

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ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "I doveri di ogni bambino", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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?. The river

Language: English

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Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

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?. Autumn fires [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

In the other gardens
  And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
  See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over
  And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
  The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
  Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
  Fires in the fall!

Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Autumn fires", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885

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GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Herbstfeuer", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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?. Windy nights [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Whenever the moon and the stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by.

Late in the night when the fires are out,
Why does he gallop and gallop about?
Whenever the trees are crying aloud,
And ships are tossed at sea,

By, on the highway, low and loud,
By at the gallop goes he.
By at the gallop he goes, and then
By he comes back at the gallop again.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Windy nights", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885

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?. Happy thought [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Happy thought", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885

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Total word count: 180