The Wreath (Julius Benedict)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-21). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 632 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: The Wreath
Composer: Julius Benedict
Lyricist: Vincent Bourne
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1878 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Sweet, lovely, chaste,
Ye lillies, haste,
That in the valleys breathe:
To Phillis haste,
Sweet, lovely, haste,
For Phillis twine the wreath.
Ye roses, come,
With virgin-bloom,
The pride of gardens own’d;
That from your bed
Diffusive shed
Ambrosial odours round.
Ye violets too,
In fields that grow,
And drink the vernal dew;
That dash the woods,
The meads, the floods,
With drops of purple hue.
All, all be joined,
Of every kind,
Flowers, herbs; the sweet, the gay;
Twist arm in arm,
Weave charm with charm,
To Phillis haste away.
To all one date
Assigns not fate,
As plain, too plain, appears;
Your glories live,
Days four or five,
But her’s as many years.
Yet gentlest race,
Your fleeting grace
To blooming Phillis lend:
And, as you fade,
Remind the maid,
That years, like days, must end.
Vincent Bourne (1695-1747)
trans. from the original Latin verse by D. Lewis