In youth is pleasure (Gustav Holst)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-02). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 377 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Peter Kaplan (submitted 2013-05-02). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 207 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: In youth is pleasure
Composer: Gustav Holst
Lyricist: Robert Wever
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1912 Stainer & Bell
Description: H.76
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Original text and translations
English text
1 In arbour green asleep I lay,
The birds sang sweet in the middle of the day
I dreamed fast of mirth and play
In youth is pleasure,
In youth is pleasure.
2 Methought I walked still to and fro
And from her company I could not go
But when I waked it was not so
In youth is pleasure,
In youth is pleasure.
3 Therefore my heart is surely plight
Of her alone to have a sight,
Which is my joy and hearts delight
In youth is pleasure,
In youth is pleasure.
based on In an harbour grene aslepe,
in An Enterlude called Lusty Juventus (1565)
Robert (sometimes cited Richard) Wever (fl.1550)