It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Grace Wilbur Conant (1858 - 1948), "A thought", published 1915 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Falk , "A thought", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by Antonio Giacometti (b. 1957), "A thought", 2005 [ baritone and piano ], from Seven Stevenson Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marvin Radnor , "A thought", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "Un pensiero", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [
Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-11-27
Line count: 4
Word count: 25
È molto bello pensare
che il mondo è pieno di roba da mangiare,
con dei bambini che dicono la preghiera
in tutti i posti cristiani del mondo.
