Yet Gentle will the Griffin be
Language:
English
(What Grandpa told the Children)
The moon? It is a griffin's egg,
Hatching to-morrow night.
And how the little boys will watch
With shouting and delight
To see him break the shell and stretch
And creep across the sky.
The boys will laugh. The little girls,
I fear, may hide and cry.
Yet gentle will the griffin be,
Most decorous and fat,
And walk up to the Milky Way
And lap it like a cat.
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Jake Heggie (1961-)
, "Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa told the children)", 1998, first performed 1998 [voice and piano], from Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children", no. 8.
by M. Ryan Taylor (1972-)
, "What Grandpa Told the Children", 1999 [voice and piano], from The Moon Songs, no. 1.
Date added to the website: 2007-07-29.
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