by Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924)
It's pleasant to rest on a stile at noon
Language: English
It's pleasant to rest on a stile at noon When the meadow's aflower and the month is June, And to take your ease on a summer day When nobody's likely to pass that way. And it's pleasant to whistle and walk a mile For the sake of passing a certain stile, When it isn't likely that one would care If somebody chanced to be resting there.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924), "Summer", appears in Leaves of Life, first published 1888 [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 Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "A summer day", op. 12 (Songs for soprano or tenor) no. 1, published 1891 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2012-12-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 66