by Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795 - 1856)
When last I strayed
Language: English
When last I stray'd into the glade, All things were green and blooming. The roses there were blushing fair, All that lay round perfuming. I drew me near a fountain clear, Which fresh and gay was playing, And there I saw my own true love, And she for me was staying. I cannot tell how it befel, That she should kindly greet me, For I might say, before that day, Most hardly did she treat me. But let that be, she's dear to me, Yet love I not as brother, And if she lay in her cold clay, I ne'er could love another.
Authorship:
- by Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795 - 1856)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795 - 1856), "When last I strayed", published c1875 [ SATB chorus ], Novello, Ewer & Co., London, England, in Novello's part-song book Volume 10, pages 110-113, number 301 [sung text checked 1 time]
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