Slow fresh fount (William Horsley)

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CPDL #21681:

Editor: F L Dunkin Wedd^{create page} (submitted 2010-05-25). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 228 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Slow fresh fount
Composer: William Horsley

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;

O slower yet, O fainter gentle springs:

List to the heavy part the music bears,

Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.

Droop herbs and flowers;

Fall grief in showers;

Our beauty is not ours;

O, could I still,

Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,

Fall down, fall down, fall down

Since summer's pride is now a withered daffodil.

NB: This appears to be Horsley's slight variation of Ben Jonson's original poem:

Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears ;

Yet slower, yet ; O faintly gentle springs :

List to the heavy part the music bears,

Woe weeps out her division, when she sings.

Droop herbs and flowers ;

Fall grief in showers ;

Our beauties are not ours ;

O, I could still,

Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,

Drop, drop, drop, drop,

Since nature's pride is, now, a withered daffodil.