Whole duty of children

A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table:
At least as far as he is able.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Whole duty of children", 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 (Robert) Houston Bright (1916-1970) , "Whole duty of children", published 1967 [SATB chorus a cappella], from From "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Edward Falk , "Whole duty of children", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931-) , "Whole duty of children", published 1968 [high voice and piano], from From a child's garden, no. 5.

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

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