The dandelion is brave and gay And loves to sit beside the way; A braver thing was never seen, To praise the grass for growing green; You never saw a gayer thing, To sit and smile and praise the spring. The children with their simple hearts, The lazy men that come in carts, The little dogs that lollop by, They all have seen its shining eye, Any every one of them would say They never saw a thing so gay.
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Text Authorship:
- by Frances Darwin Cornford (1886 - 1960), "The dandelion", appears in Poems, first published 1910 [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 Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "The dandelion", 1921, published 1921, first performed 1921 [ soprano, clarinet, and piano ], from Two Nursery Rhymes, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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