Look, Edwin! Do you see that boy
Talking to the other boy?
No, over there by the two men -- 
Wait, don't look now -- now look again.
No, not the one in navy-blue;
That's the one he's talking to.
Sure you see him? Stripèd pants?
Well, he was born in Paris, France.

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Text Authorship:

• by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title, appears in Poems Selected for Young People, in From a Very Little Sphinx, no. 5, first published 1929 [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 John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Look, Edwin", 1971 [ soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from From a Very Little Sphinx: Five Songs for Soprano or Mezzo-soprano, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Michael Armand Fink (b. 1939), "From a very little sphinx", published 1969 [ soprano, SSAA chorus, and string quartet or strings ]
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• by Bernard Wagenaar (1894 - 1971), "From a very little sphinx", published 1926 [ soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano ]
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