Sweet are the flowers (Raynor Taylor)

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• (Posted 2025-11-02)  CPDL #87301: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2025-11-02).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 57 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition is offered at original pitch for TTB or transposed up a sixth for SSA.

General Information

Title: Sweet are the flowers
Composer: Raynor Taylor
Lyricist: Edward Moore^{create page}
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicings: TTB or SSA
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1774 (n/d)
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Original text and translations

English text

Sweet are the flow'rs that deck the fields,
Sweet is the smell the blossom yields;
Sweet is the summer gale that blows,
And sweet (though sweeter you) the rose.

Survey the gardens, fields, and bow'rs,
The buds and blossoms and the flow'rs;
Then tell me where the woodbine grows
That vies in sweetness with the rose.