Jumbo's lullaby (Sitwell, set by W. Walton) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Jumbo asleep!
 Grey leaves thick-furred
 As his ears keep
 Conversations blurred.
 Thicker than hide
 Is the trumpeting water;
 Don Pasquito's bride
 And his youngest daughter
 Watch the leaves
 Elephantine grey:
 What is it grieves
 In the torrid day?
 Is it the animal
 World that snores
 Harsh and inimical
 In sleepy pores?-
 And why should the spined flowers
 red as a soldier
 Make Don Pasquito
 Seem still mouldier?

Input by Dan Eggleston

Authorship

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

William Walton (1902-1983)

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