System

Every night my prayers I say,
And get my dinner every day;
And every day that I've been good,
I get an orange after food.

The child that is not clean and neat,
With lots of toys and things to eat,
He is a naughty child, I'm sure --
Or else his dear papa is poor.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "System", 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 Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875-1921) , "System", published 1902 [medium voice and piano], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Edward Falk , "System", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor (1858-1940?) , "System", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Six songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) , "Every night my prayers I say", 1902 [voice or vocal quartet and piano], from More daisies: new songs of childhood, no. 5.

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