The flowers

All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock,

Fairy places, fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames -
These must all be fairy names!

Tiny woods below whose boughs
Shady fairies weave a house;
Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,
Where the braver fairies climb!

Fair are grown-up people's trees,
But the fairest woods are these;
Where if I were not so tall,
I should live for good and all.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "The flowers", 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 Marvin Radnor , "The flowers", published 1923 [voice and piano], from Songs for Little Children
by Arthur Rosenstein , "Baby's garden", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931-) , "The flowers", published 1968 [high voice and piano], from From a child's garden, no. 6.

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