Poetry Day!!!

For our dear Thursday, I have a poem that I know 2 musical settings for. The text is "I will make you Brooches" by Robert Louis Stevenson. I originally sang one of the settings by Winifred Bury in the Rotary Festival in Cardston!! The other setting is by Vaughn-Williams for his "Songs of Travel". I have only sang this version in my kitchen (quite apropos when you see the lyrics), but I am a bit more partial to it.

Enjoy!!

I Will Make You Brooches

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me,
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room,
Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom,
And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white
In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.

And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

- Robert Louis Stevenson