Escape at bedtime

The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
  Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
  There were thousands of millions of stars.
There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree,
  Nor of people in church or the Park,
As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,
  And that glittered and winked in the dark.

The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,
  And the star of the sailor, and Mars,
These shown in the sky, and the pail by the wall
  Would be half full of water and stars.
They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries,
  And they soon had me packed into bed;
But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes,
  And the stars going round in my head.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Escape at bedtime", 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 , "Escape at bedtime", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Edward Falk , "Escape at bedtime", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) , "The stars", from Five Little Songs, no. 4.
by Robert Edward Jager (1939-) , "Going to sleep" [soprano, and piano or wind ensemble or chamber orchestra], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) , "Stars", published 1893 [tenor and piano], from The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood, no. 5.
by Oskar Morawetz (1917-) , "Escape at bedtime", 1985, from Souvenirs from Childhood, no. 3.

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