On sunny days in our backyard, two little flowers are seen, One dressed, at times, in brightest pink and one in green. The marigold is radiant, the rose passing fair; The violet is ever dear, the orchid, ever rare; There's lovliness1 in wild flow'rs of field or wide savannah, But fairest, rarest of them all are Edith and Susanna.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 note: this is the spelling used in 129 Songs By Charles Edward Ives, edited by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock, 2004.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Harmony Twitchell (1876 - 1969) [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 Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Two little flowers (and dedicated to them)", 1921 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfredo García) , "Dos pequeñas flores", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 59