Songs of Travel
Complete Edition
Words by
Robert Louis Stevenson
Music by
R. Vaughan Williams
Low Voice
Boosey & Hawkes
Music Publishers Limited
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The Vagabond 3
Let Beauty Awake 10
The Roadside Fire re
Youth and Love 19
In Dreams 24
The Infinite Shining Heavens 27
Whither must I Wander 30
Bright is the Ring of Words 35
I Have Trod the Upward and the
Downward Slope (op. Posth.) 38The Vagabond.
Words by Music by
R. L. STEVENSON. R. VAUGHAN. WILLIAMS.
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(alla marcia)
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Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go
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Bread I dip in the
Bed in the bush with stars to see,
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Let the blow fall soon orlatejLet what will be oer me; Give the face of earth a- round,And the road be
fore me, Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a..... friend to
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seek, the heaven a - bove,
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|The Vagabond.L
Let Beauty Awake.
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Words by
Music by
R. L. STEVENSON,
R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS.
Moderato.
Voice,
Piano,
from beau - ti - ful
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Let Beau-ty a - wake... For Beau - ty’s
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The Roadside Fire.
Words by Music by
R. L. STEVENSON. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. :
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will make you
Piano. pleggiero.
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broo - ches toys for your de - light, V
birdsong at morn - ing and star - shine at night.
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green days. in for - ests,and blue days
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kit-chen, and you shallkeepyour room, Where white flows the
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fi-ver and bright blows the broom; And you. shallwash your
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lin-en, and keep yourbo-dy white
morn - ing and dew - fall
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Youth and Love.
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| Words by Music by
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In Dreams.
Words by Music by
R. L. STEVENSON. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAN
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as here - to-fore: The un - rememberd to-kens in you
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: The Infinite Shining Heavens.
Words by Music by
R. L. STEVENSON, R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS.
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in the night Un - count-a -ble stars Shower
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stars.... looked 0 ver the Till lot...
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I looked in the dusk....... And a star hadcome down
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Whither must I wander?
Words by Music by
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS.
Andante. ng treguillo
VOICE.
Home no more home to me,..
go..where I must.
whi-ther must I wander? Hun.ger my driver, I
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Lové of... wise men was the
rain and my roof is in the dust.
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shade of my roof-tree, The true word of welcome was spo.ken in the doo
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Dear days of old..with the fa.ces in the fire - light; Kind folks of
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you come again no more.
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Home was home then,my dear, fall of kind.ly faces, Home was home then, my dear,
hap-py for the child. Fire and the win-dows bright glit tered on the moor -
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-land; Song, tune-ful song, built a palace in the wild.
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chim.ney-stone is cold.
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Spring shall come,come a.gain, eall-ing up the moor-fowl, Spring shall bring the sun and rain,
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bring the bees and flowers; Red shall the heather bloom o.ver hill and val _
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Fair the day shine az it shone on my child-hood; Fair shine the day on the
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house with 0 _pen door. Birds come and ery there and twit-ter in the chim
go for e . ver and come a-gain no more
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Bright is the ring of words
Words by
Music by
R.L.STEVENSON
R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Moderato risoluto
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VOICE
Bright is the ring of words......... When the tight man
PIANO risoluto
tings them, Fair the fall of songs......... when the sing-er sings them.
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Still they are ca-rolled and said—
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On wings they are car -ried—
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Copyright renewed 1933 in U.S.A. by Boosey & Co.,Ltd Printed in Englandpoco rit,
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sing-er lies... ‘In the field of heath - er, Songs of his