by James Elroy Flecker (1884 - 1915)
Riouperoux
Language: English
High and solemn mountains guard Riouperoux, - Small untidy village where the river drives a mill: Frail as wood anemones, white and frail were you, And drooping a little, like the slender daffodil. Oh I will go to France again, and tramp the valley through, And I will change these gentle clothes for clog and corduroy, And work with the mill-hands of black Riouperoux, And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy.
Authorship:
- by James Elroy Flecker (1884 - 1915) [author's text not yet checked 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 Hubert James Foss (1899 - 1953), "Riouperoux", published 1925 [voice and piano], Oxford University Press [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Alex Siddall
This text was added to the website: 2016-04-19
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