The Pasture

"The Pasture" is an art song composed by Margaret Bonds with text derived from the poem of the same name by Robert Frost.

Date: 1958Composer: Margaret BondsText: Robert Frost

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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 shan’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 shan’t be gone long
You come too

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Composer(s): Margaret Bonds

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