O, were my Love yon lilac fair (Henry Marcellus Higgs)

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• (Posted 2023-10-27)  CPDL #76730:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 531 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: O, were my Love yon lilac fair
Composer: Henry Marcellus Higgs
Lyricist: Robert Burns
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1903 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

O, were my love yon lilac fair
Wi’ purple blossom to the spring,
And I a bird to shelter there,
When wearied on my little wing:
How I wad mourn when it was torn
By Autumn wild and Winter rude!
But I wad sing on wanton wing,
When youthfu’ May its bloom renew’d.

O, gin my love were yon red rose,
That grows upon the castle wa’,
And I mysel’ a drap o’ dew
Into her bonnie breast to fa’!
O, there, beyond expression blest,
I’d feast on beauty a’ the night;
Seal’d on her silk-saft faulds to rest,
Till fley’d awa by Phoebus’ light!