by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
All night long and every night
Language: English
All night long and every night, When my mama puts out the light, I see the people marching by, As plain as day, before my eye. Armies and emperors and kings, All carrying different kinds of things, And marching in so grand a way, You never saw the like by day. So fine a show was never seen At the great circus on the green; For every kind of beast and man Is marching in that caravan. At first they move a little slow, But still the faster on they go, And still beside them close I keep Until we reach the town of Sleep.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods, New York: Current Literature, 1913.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Young night thought", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885 [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 Ethel Crowningshield , "Young night thought", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Falk , "Young night thought", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "Young night thought", published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from The Stevenson Song-Book [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Groocock , "All night long and every night", published 1957 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from A Child's Garden [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "Young night thought", op. 29 no. 3, published 1903 [ voice and piano ], from Four Stevenson Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Mabel Wood Hill (1870 - 1954), "Young night thought", published c1902 [ voice and piano ], from Seven songs of Stevenson, no. 3, Cincinnati: J. Church Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Young night thought", op. 16 (Three songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses") no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "Young night thought", published 1910 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marvin Radnor , "Young night thought", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021), "Night Thought", 1999 [ voice and piano ], from The Road: a novel for solo piano, no. 46, note: the score indicates that the pianist is also the vocalist [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Edith Swepstone (flourished 1887-1915), "The caravan", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson's Songs for Children, no. 5, London : J. Curwen & Sons Ltd. [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-06-14
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Word count: 108