Songs

Walking song

by Julian Philips From The Country of Larks (2021)

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Text

Walking song
English source: Robert Louis Stevenson

first enthusiasm
encouraged me up the long hill
for the day was a bad day for walking at best,
and now began to draw towards afternoon,
dull,
heavy,
and lifeless

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Autumn Effect' (1875)

Composer

Julian Philips

Julian Philips (born 1969) is a British composer.

Poet

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh,…

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