To Blossoms (Harold Darke)

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• (Posted 2023-10-09)  CPDL #76163:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-09).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 569 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: To Blossoms
Composer: Harold Darke
Lyricist: Robert Herrick
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 Stainer & Bell
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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?
’Twas pity Nature brought you 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.