Summer
Language:
English
Winter is cold-hearted,
Spring is yea and nay,
Autumn is a weathercock
Blown every way:
Summer days for me
When every leaf is on its tree;
When Robin's not a beggar,
And Jenny Wren's a bride,
And larks hang singing, singing, singing,
Over the wheat-fields wide,
And anchored lilies ride,
And the pendulum spider
Swings from side to side,
And blue-black beetles transact business,
And gnats fly in a host,
And furry caterpillars hasten
That no time be lost,
And moths grow fat and thrive,
And ladybirds arrive.
Before green apples blush,
Before green nuts embrown,
Why, one day in the country
Is worth a month in town;
Is worth a day and a year
Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion
That days drone elsewhere.
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 Laurence Hector Davies
, "Summer days for me", published 1962. [unison children's voices and piano]
by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885-1918)
, "Summer", published 1927. [female or boys' voices and piano]
by Hermann Frederic Löhr (1872-1943)
, "Summer", published 1925. [voice and piano]
by Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875-1958)
, "Summer", published 1917. [voice and piano]
by Paul Sturman
, "Summer", published 1974 [unison voices and piano], from Seasons
Date added to the website: 2008-01-13.
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