A Life Lesson (Jessie Louise Pease)

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• (Posted 2023-11-27)  CPDL #77641:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 705 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Life Lesson
Composer: Jessie Louise Pease
Lyricist: James Whitcomb Riley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1905 Rand, McNally & Company
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Original text and translations

English text

There! little girl, don’t cry!
They have broken your doll, I know;
And your tea-set blue,
And your play-house, too,
Are things of the long ago;
But childish troubles will soon pass by.—
There! little girl, don’t cry!

There! little girl, don’t cry!
They have broken your slate, I know;
And the glad, wild ways
Of your school-girl days
Are things of the long ago;
But life and love will soon come by.—
There! little girl, don’t cry!

There! little girl, don’t cry!
They have broken your heart, I know;
And the rainbow gleams
Of your youthful dreams
Are things of the long ago;
But Heaven holds all for which you sigh.—
There! little girl, don’t cry!