by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
There was an Old Man who said, "How
Language: English
There was an Old Man who said, "How,-- Shall I flee from this horrible Cow? I will sit on this stile, And continue to smile, Which may soften the heart of that Cow."
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Authorship:
- by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888), no title, appears in A Book of Nonsense, first published 1861 [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 Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), as Karel Drofnatski, "The Cow and the Coward", published 1960 [voice and piano], from Nonsense Rhymes, no. 11. [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-03-06
Line count: 5
Word count: 33