THE PIPER has music by Cecil Steffen, OP (1919-2009) using a poem by Jeremy Finnegan for Vocal Solo with Piano. High Vocal Score. Duration: 2:00

Text:

Bright-haired children, come!

Wake with smiles and rosy looks.

Leave your lessons, leave your books,

Let us find forgotten brooks.

Light-foot children, come!

Quick winds furl your yellow locks,

swell and bell your flowered smocks.

Swing the grasses to and fro.

You must answer. You must go.

Here are meadows wide and green,

seas of daisies, new and clean.

The morning dove you have not seen.

Children, children, come!

Children, children, come!