The pasture

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha'n't be gone long.
You come too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother.
It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long.
You come too.

by Robert Frost (1874-1963) , "The pasture", from North of Boston, published 1915

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

by Henry Dixon Cowell (1897-1965) , "The pasture", 1944. [high voice and piano]
by Philip Gordon (1894-?) , "The pasture", published 1958. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Bain Murray (1926-) , "The pasture" [voice and piano]
by Charles Naginski (1909-1940) , "The pasture", published 1940, from Four songs, no. ?
by Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) , "The pasture", op. 76 no. 2 (1957), from Robert Frost Songs, no. 2.
by Randall Thompson (1899-1984) , "The pasture", published 1959 [TTB chorus and piano], from Frostiana, no. ?

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