Flora now calleth forth each flower (John Stafford Smith)

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• (Posted 2021-10-04)  CPDL #66065: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-10-04).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 339 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Edition prepared from the primary source.

• (Posted 2021-08-24)  CPDL #65571:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-08-24).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 250 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Flora now calleth forth each flower
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Lyricist: Edmund Spenser
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1784 Warren's twenty first collection
    2nd published: 1851 Novello's Glee Hive no.4
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Original text and translations

English text

Flora now calleth forth each flower,
And bids make ready Maia's bower.
Then will we little Love awake,
who still doth lie in a trance,
That now sleepeth in Lethe's lake,
And pray him leaden our dance.