To Blossoms (Frederick St. John Lacy)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-06). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 435 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: To Blossoms
Composer: Frederick St. John Lacy
Lyricist: Robert Herrick
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1891 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Six Part-songs, Op. 7 No. 5
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Original text and translations
English text
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,
Why do ye fall so fast?
Your date is not so past
But you may stay yet here awhile
To blush and gently smile,
And go at last.
What! were ye born to be
An hour or half’s delight,
And so to bid good-night?
’T is pity Nature brought ye forth,
Merely to show your worth,
And lose you quite.
But you are lovely leaves, where we
May read how soon things have
Their end, though ne’er so brave;
And after they have shown their pride
Like you awhile, they glide
Into the grave.