Slow fresh fount (William Horsley)

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• CPDL #21681: 

Editor: F. L. Dunkin Wedd (submitted 2010-05-25).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 228 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Slow fresh fount
Composer: William Horsley
Lyricist: Ben Jonson

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

English text

Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;
O slower yet, O fainter gentle springs:
List to the heavy part the music bears,
Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.
Droop herbs and flowers;
Fall grief in showers;
Our beauty is not ours;
O, could I still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
Fall down, fall down, fall down
Since summer's pride is now a withered daffodil.

NB. The set text (above) seems to be Horsley's slight variation of Ben Jonson's original poem:

Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears ;
Yet slower, yet ; O faintly gentle springs :
List to the heavy part the music bears,
Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.
Droop herbs and flowers ;
Fall grief in showers ;
Our beauties are not ours ;
O, I could still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
Drop, drop, drop, drop,
Since nature's pride is, now, a withered daffodil.