Crowned with flowers (William Byrd)

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• CPDL #8490: Sibelius 2.
  

Editor: David Fraser (added 2004-11-09).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 100 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Crowned with flowers
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals
Language: English
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published: Psalmes, Songs & Sonnets (1611), no. 22

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English text

Crowned with flowers, I saw fair Amaryllis, by Thyrsis sit, hard by a fount of Crystal, and with her hand more white than snow or lilies. On sand she wrote, my faith shall be immortal, and suddenly, a storm of wind and weather, blew all her faith and sand away togheter.