Текст песни Facade for Reciter and Orchestra: Jodelling Song (Уильям Уолтон) с переводом

We bear velvet cream

Green and babyish

Small leaves seem; each stream

Horses' tails that swish

And the chimes remind

Us of sweet birds singing

Like the jangling bells

On rose trees ringing

Man must say farewell

To parents now

And to William Tell

And Mrs. Cow

Man must say farewells

To storks and Bettes

And to roses' bells

And statuettes

Forests white and black

In spring are blue

With forget-me-nots

And to lovers true

Still the sweet bird begs

And tries to cozen

Them: «Buy angels' eggs

Sold by the dozen.»

Gone are clouds like inns

On the gardens' brinks

And the mountain djinns—

Ganymede sells drinks;

While the days seem gray

And his heart of ice

Gray as chamois, or

The edelweiss

And the mountain streams

Like cowbells sound—

Tirra lirra, drowned

In the waiter’s dreams

Who has gone beyond

The forest waves

While his true and fond

Ones seek their graves.'

Перевод песни Facade for Reciter and Orchestra: Jodelling Song