Randall Thompson‘s choral setting of a poem by Robert Frost.
bluebird of bitterness
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Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
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bluebird of bitterness 
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Thank you for the link. 🙂
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Beautiful! I love hearing Frost’s poem set to music.
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Wow!
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I read this poem to my preschool class all the time. The poem is a children’s book, with lovely illustrations, and of course the words to the poem are perfectly preserved. The musical version is lovely.
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Is yours the one with illustrations by Susan Jeffers? I bought that book forty years ago when my eldest daughter was little, because we’d checked it out of the library and she loved it, so I wanted her to have her own copy. We read it so many times that she had it memorized.
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Yes, that’s the one! What a wonderful book to introduce children to poetry and Frost. I hope she still has that book.
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It’s still on my book shelf. I saved almost all of the picture books we got when our kids were little — a good thing, too, as lots of them are now out of print — so I’d have them for grandkids. Now I read them to my grandson. 🙂
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That is so wonderful!! Thank you for telling me. You are giving your grandson a great gift.
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