Shadow march

All around the house is the jet-black night;
  It stares through the window-pane;
It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,
  And it moves with the moving flame.

Now my little heart goes a beating like a drum,
  With the breath of the Bogies in my hair;
And all around the candle the crooked shadows come,
  And go marching along up the stair.

The shadow of the balusters, the shadow of the lamp,
  The shadow of the child that goes to bed --
All the wicked shadows coming tramp, tramp, tramp,
  With the black night overhead.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Shadow march", from A Child's Garden of Verses, in Northwest Passage, no. 2

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

by Mark Andrews (1875-1939) , "Shadow march", published 1911 [voice and piano], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse", no. ?
by Norman Gilbert (1912-) , "Shadow march", published 1953. [unison voices and piano]
by George Rathbone (1874-?) , "Shadow march", published 1923. [unison children's or female voices and piano]
by Teresa del Riego (c1876-1968) , "Shadow march", published 1909 [voice and piano], from Children's pictures, no. ?
by Alec Rowley (1892-1958) , "Shadow march", published 1963 [unison children's or female voices and piano], from Monsieur de la plume, no. ?
by Ronald Stevenson (1928-) , "Shadow march", 1961 [medium voice and piano], from Four Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Muriel Thomas , "Shadow march", published 1957 [medium unison voices and piano], from Four songs for children, no. ?, also set in Welsh (translation by Wil Ifan)
by John Brown Russell Whitfield , "Shadow march", published 1958. [unison voices and piano]
by Luigi Zaninelli (1932-) , "Shadow march", published 1962 [SSA chorus and piano or instrumental ensemble], from The world is so full, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2008-12-07.

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