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Jacobean Lyrics

Song Cycle by Rhian Samuel (b. 1944)

1. I got me flowers  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
I got me flowers to strew thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought'st thy sweets along with thee. 

The Sun arising in the East,
Though he give light, and the East perfume;
If they should offer to contest
With thy arising, they presume. 

Can there be any day but this,
Though many suns to shine endeavour? 
We count three hundred, but we miss:
There is but one, and that one ever.

Text Authorship:

  • by George Herbert (1593 - 1633)

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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
Total word count: 84
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