Young night thought

All night long and every night,
When my mama puts out the light,
I see the people marching by,
As plain as day before my eye.

Armies and emperor and kings,
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by day.

So fine a show was never seen
At the great circus on the green;
For every kind of beast and man
Is marching in that caravan.

As first they move a little slow,
But still the faster on they go,
And still beside me close I keep
Until we reach the town of Sleep.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Young night thought", 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 Ethel Crowningshield , "Young night thought", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Edward Falk , "Young night thought", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Arthur Foote (1853-1937) , "Young night thought", published 1897 [voice and piano], from The Stevenson Song-Book
by Joseph Groocock , "All night long and every night", published 1957 [SSA chorus and piano], from A Child's Garden, no. ?
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937) , "Young night thought", published 1903. [voice and piano]
by Sidney Homer (1864-1953) , "Young night thought", op. 16 (Three songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses") no. 2. [voice and piano]
by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878-1937) , "Young night thought", published 1910. [voice and piano]
by Marvin Radnor , "Young night thought", published 1923. [voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2007-06-14.

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