Fair Daffodils (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2023-12-20)  CPDL #78432:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-20).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 383 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Fair Daffodils
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Robert Herrick
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1866 Lamborn Cock, Addison & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

TO DAFFODILS

Fair daffodils, we weep to see
Ye haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the evensong;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found again.