1955
who knows if the moon’s a balloon
Composed by 
Dominick Argento
Dominick Argento Text by 
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings Songs About Spring Song Collection
"who knows if the moon's a balloon" is the first song of Dominick Argento's Songs About Spring cycle, which sets five poems of e. e. cummings.
Please note that the text of the poem is posted in "lyrics" form, and not in the typographical layout of the original publication.
"who knows if the moon's a balloon" can be found in cummings's 1925 volume &[AND].
Text
who knows if the moon’s
by e. e. cummings
who knows if the moon’s
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky–filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody’s ever visited,
where
always
it’s
Spring)and everyone’s
in love and flowers pick themselves
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