O father father where are you going Oh do not walk so fast; Oh, speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost. The night it was dark & no father was there, And the child was wet with dew. The mire was deep, & the child did weep And away the vapour flew.
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Note: this is the first draft of "The little boy lost"Text Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), no title, appears in An Island in the Moon, Chapter XI [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 Nicolas Flagello (1928 - 1994), "O father, O father", 1964, published 1965 [ high voice and piano ], from Songs from William Blake's "An Island in the Moon", no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
Set in a modified version by William Bolcom, Vincent Henry Palmer Caillard, Sir, Norman Curtis, John Frandsen, Ole Carsten Green, Kenneth Haxton, Christian Victor Hely-Hutchinson, Gary Michael Higginson, Joseph Holbrooke, Herbert Norman Howells, Timothy Lenk, Douglas McGilvra, Ken Neufeld, Norman Houston O'Neill, Solomon Pimsleur, Ellen Raskin, Allen Dwight Sapp, Russell Smith, Ronald Stevenson, Alan Burrage Stout, Anthony Strilko, John Austin Sykes, David Evan Thomas, Rudolph T. Werther, Raymond Wilding-White, William Brocklesby Wordsworth.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-05-24
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