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


 Ratatantan, ratatantan, ratatantan:
 The marshal's harrier
 Bites arid fights
 The water carrier.
 Mossed as a druid,
 Under the wall
 Thin waters fall
 And turn into fluid
 Petals of tulips, and hard regalias
 Of lilies and dahlias.
 Then, as they brawl,
 Jupiter leaned from his vast snow cage,
 Cuffed the marshal's harrier -
 Still in a rage he bites and fights
 The wall grown mouldier,
 Where stiff as a soldier
 Stands the breeze,
 Like a handy andy,
 And words they bandy
 Under the dandy
 Dinmont trees.

Input by Dan Eggleston

Authorship

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

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William Walton (1902-1983)

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