Bright cap and streamers

Bright cap and streamers,
He sings in the hollow:
Come follow, come follow,
All you that love.
Leave dreams to the dreamers
That will not after,
That song and laughter
Do nothing move.
 
With ribbons streaming
He sings the bolder;
In troop at his shoulder
The wild bees hum.
And the time of dreaming
Dreams is over--
As lover to lover,
Sweetheart, I come.

by James Joyce (1882-1941) , "Bright cap and streamers", from Chamber Music, no. 10, published 1907

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

by Lorne M. Betts (1918-) , "Bright cap and streamers", 1951 [high voice and piano], from Six Songs to Poems of James Joyce, no. ?
by Joan Ferris , "Bright cap and streamers", published 1967 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Six Songs, no. ?
by Jack Maurice Jarrett (1934-) , "Bright cap and streamers", published 1964. [SATB and piano]
by Dorothy Hill Klotzman , "Bright cap and streamers", published 1963 [SSA chorus a cappella], from Three Songs from "Chamber Music", no. ?
by Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) , "Bright cap", published 1930 [mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano], from Seven Poems by James Joyce, no. ?
by Benjamin Moore (1960-) , "Bright cap and streamers", from Eight Irish Songs, no. 5.
by Williametta Spencer (1932-) , "Bright cap and streamers", published 1972. [SATB a cappella]
by Graham Martin Treacher (1932-) , "Bright cap and streamers", published 1963. [two-part children's chorus and piano]
by Gerard Victory (1921-) , "Bright cap and streamers", 1954 [tenor, SATB chorus, and instruments], from Five Songs by James Joyce, no. ?

FRE French (Guy Laffaille)

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