From a railway carriage

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging alone like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river;
Each a glimpse and gone for ever.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "From a railway carriage", from A Child's Garden of Verses, published 1885

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

by Alys Eliza Bentley , "Song of the train", published 1923. [unaccompanied voice]
by Arthur Butterworth (1923-) , "From a railway carriage", op. 41 no. ? [orator, chorus, semichorus, orchestra, and tape], from Trains in the Distance, no. ?
by Frederica Elvira Gambogi (?-1940) , "From a railway carriage", published 1902 [voice and piano], from Child-Land, no. ?
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937) , "From a railway carriage", published 1906 [unaccompanied voices], from The Laurel Music-Reader
by Francis Alan Jackson (1917-) , "From a railway carriage", published 1958. [unison voices and piano]
by Robert Edward Jager (1939-) , "From a railway carriage" [soprano and piano, wind ensemble, or chamber orchestra], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Oskar Morawetz (1917-) , "From a railway carriage", 1985, from Souvenirs from Childhood, no. 1.
by Alec Rowley (1892-1958) , "From a railway carriage", published 1963. [unison voices and piano]
by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931-) , "From a railway carriage", published 1968 [high voice and piano], from From a child's garden, no. 9.

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