The quartette

Tom sang for joy and Ned sang for joy and old Sam sang for joy;
All we four boys piped up loud, just like one boy;
And the ladies that sate with the Squire - their cheeks were all wet,
For the noise of the voice of us boys, when we sang our Quartette.

Tom he piped low and Ned he piped low and old Sam he piped low;
Into a sorrowful fall did our music flow;
And the ladies that sate with the Squire vowed they'd never forget
How the eyes of them cried for delight, when we sang our Quartette.

by Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) , "The quartette", from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, published 1913

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

by George Alfred Grant-Schaefer (1872-1939) , "The quartet", published 1932 [voice and piano], from Music of Many Lands and Peoples
by Dom Thomas Symons (1887-1975) , "The quartette", published 1937 [voice and piano], from Two de la Mare Songs

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