A camel-driver (Browning, set by G. Bantock) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


When I vexed you and you chid me, 
And I owned my fault and turned 
My cheek the way you bid me, 
And confessed the blow well earned, 
My comfort all the while was 
Fault was faulty near, not quite ! 

Do you wonder why the smile was ? 
O'erpunished wrong grew right. 
But faults you ne'er suspected, 
Nay, praised, no faults at all, 
Those would you had detected 
Crushed eggs whence snakes could crawl !

Authorship

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Ferishtah's Fancies

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

Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868-1946)

Lyrics from "Ferishtah's Fancies"

Date added to the website: 2009-02-26.

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