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Title: Youth and Love (from Songs of Travel)

Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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• Vaughan Williams - Youth and Love
• Key: G Major
• Range: C4 - E5
• Source: Songs of Travel

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To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside.
Passing for ever, he fares; and on either hand,
Deep in the gardens golden pavilions hide,
Nestle in orchard bloom, and far on the level land
Call him with lighted lamp in the eventide.

Thick as stars at night when the moon is down,
Pleasures assail him. He to his nobler fate
Fares; and but waves a hand as he passes on,
Cries but a wayside word to her at the garden gate,
Sings but a boyish stave and his face is gone.

• Recmusic.org has texts and translations.

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