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by William Henry Davies (1871 - 1940)

The milkmaid's call
Language: German (Deutsch) 
As I walked down a lane this morn,
  I heard a sweet voice cry, Come, Come !
And then I saw ten dull, fat cows
  Begin to race like horses home ;
Like horses in their pace,
  Though lacking horses' grace.

That voice, which did uplift those feet
  Of cows, uplifted mine likewise ;
For, with a heart so light, I walked
  Until the sweat did blind my eyes ;
And all the way back home,
  I heard her cry, Come, Come !

Text Authorship:

  • by William Henry Davies (1871 - 1940), "The milkmaid's call", appears in Nature Poems and Others, first published 1908 [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 Otto Freudenthal (b. 1934), "The milkmaid's call", 2000 [voice and piano], from 10 poems by William H. Davies for voice and piano, no. 6. [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-09-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 78

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