Come, my little children

Come, my little children, here are songs for you;
Some are short and some are long, and all, all are new.
You must learn to sing them very small and clear,
Very true to time and tune and pleasing to the ear.

Mark the note that rises, mark the notes that fall,
Mark the time when broken, and the swing of it all.
So when night is come, and you have gone to bed,
All the songs you love to sing shall echo in your head.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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

by Colin Moncrieff Campbell Taylor (1881-1973) , "Come, my little children", published <<1951. [unison voices and piano]
by Felix Harold White (1884-1945) , "Come, my little children" [voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2008-12-08.

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