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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!
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Authorship
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Autumn fires", 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 (Robert) Houston Bright (1916 - 1970), "Autumn fires", published 1967 [SATB chorus a cappella], from From "A Child's Garden of Verses" [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by T. A. Dorr , "Sing a song of seasons, something bright in all", published 1925 [voice and piano], in the collection Song and Play for Children [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Marian McLaughlin (b. 1923), "Autumn fires", published 1963 [SSA chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Marvin Radnor , "Autumn fires", published 1923 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Aleta Rossiter , "Song of the seasons", published 1907 [voice and piano], in Song Primer [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Eleanor Smith , "Autumn fires", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Song Pictures [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Herbstfeuer", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-11-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 50
Aus den andern Gärten talaufwärts, weithin, seht im Herbst die Fahnen der Gartenfeuer ziehn! Sommers Duft und Blühen sich zu Ende neigen, rote Feuer glühen, grauer Rauch am steigen. Sei dies Lied gesungen! Leuchtet es doch beiden: Blumen sind’s im Sommer, Feuer zu Herbstzeiten!
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2019 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Autumn fires", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
This text was added to the website: 2019-06-03
Line count: 12
Word count: 44