by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
A camel‑driver
Language: English
When I vexed you and you chid me, And I owned my fault and turned My cheek the way you bid me, And confessed the blow well earned, My comfort all the while was Fault was faulty near, not quite ! Do you wonder why the smile was ? O'erpunished wrong grew right. But faults you ne'er suspected, Nay, praised, no faults at all, Those would you had detected Crushed eggs whence snakes could crawl !
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), "A camel-driver", appears in Ferishtah's Fancies, no. 7, first published 1884 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "A camel-driver", 1903, published 1905 [tenor and orchestra], from Lyrics from "Ferishtah's Fancies", no. 7. [text not verified]
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Line count: 12
Word count: 74