Welcome joy and welcome sorrow

Song Cycle by Imogen Clare Holst (1907 - 1984)

?. Shed no tear [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! oh, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
Dry your eyes! oh, dry your eyes!
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies, -- 
                            Shed no tear.

Overhead! look overhead!
'Mong the blossoms white and red -- 
Look up, look up! I flutter now
On this fresh pomegranate bough.
See me! 'tis this silvery bill
Ever cures the good man's ill.
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Adieu, adieu -- I fly -- adieu!
I vanish in the heaven's blue, -- 
                             Adieu, adieu!

Text Authorship:

by John Keats (1795 - 1821), "The faery bird's song"

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First published in Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal, October 1838.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Total word count: 109