by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Language: English
All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock, Fairy places, fairy things, Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, Tiny trees for tiny dames - These must all be fairy names! Tiny woods below whose boughs Shady fairies weave a house; Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme, Where the braver fairies climb! Fair are grown-up people's trees, But the fairest woods are these; Where if I were not so tall, I should live for good and all.
Composition:
- Set to music by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931 - 2003), "The flowers", published 1968 [ high voice and piano ], from From a child's garden, no. 6
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "The flowers", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
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Line count: 16
Word count: 86