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by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

Stars
 (Sung text for setting by L. Lehmann)
 See base text
Language: English 
Our translations:  FRE
The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
  Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
  There were thousands and millions of stars.
There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree,
  Nor of people in church or the Park,
As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,
  And that glittered and winked in the dark.

The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,
  And the star of the sailor, and Mars,
These shone in the sky, and the pail by the wall
  Would be half full of water and stars.
They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries,
  And they soon had me packed into bed;
But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes,
  And the stars going round in my head.

Composition:

    Set to music by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "Stars", published 1893 [ tenor and piano ], from The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood, no. 5

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Escape at bedtime", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Sylvain Labartette) , "Les étoiles", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-11-29
Line count: 16
Word count: 143

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