In a glorious garden green (William Wallace)

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• (Posted 2023-12-15)  CPDL #78239:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-15).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 640 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: In a glorious garden green
Composer: William Wallace
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 Patterson & Sons
Description: Variation of the “White Rose Carol”–a ballad about Elizabeth of York, spouse of Henry VII; The marriage ended the War of the Roses, and she was mother of Henry VIII. The White Rose being of the House of York; the Fleur-de-lis of the Tudor Crown.

Original text and translations

English text

In a glorious garden green,
Saw I sitting a comely Queen
Among the flow’rs that freshé been,
She pluck’d a rose of royal mien.

And ever she sang, as she sat among
The lily white flow’rs that deck’d the lawn;
The gentle day doth dawn,
I must home be gone.

In that garden’s glorious hue
Were flow’rs that she well knew;
The fleur-de-lis that is most true,
The gilly flow’r gent, the violet rue.