A thought

It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place.

Authorship

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "A 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 Grace Wilbur Conant , "A thought", published 1915. [voice and piano]
by Edward Falk , "A thought", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Antonio Giacometti (1957-) , "A thought", 2005 [baritone and piano], from Seven Stevenson Songs, no. 2.
by Marvin Radnor , "A thought", published 1923. [voice and piano]

ITA Italian (Paolo Montanari) , "Un pensiero", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website: 2008-11-27.

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