In youth is pleasure (Gustav Holst)
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CPDL #29001:LilyPond
- 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: Edward Elgar
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1907
Description: H.76
External websites: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/holst-this-have-i-done-for/id584935539#
Original text and translations
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.
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.
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 a text in English by R. Wever, probably Richard Wever (c1500?-1560?), title unknown, from An Enterlude called Lusty Juventus, published 1565)