Gather ye Rosebuds (John Winans Shryock)

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• (Posted 2023-12-07)  CPDL #77939:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-07).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 409 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Gather ye Rosebuds
Composer: John Winans Shryock
Lyricist: Robert Herrick
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 W.J. Dyer & Bro.
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Original text and translations

English text

To the Virgins, to make much of Time

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.