Lo! where she comes along with portly pace, like Phoebe from her chamber of the east, Arising forth to run her mighty race, Clad all in white, that seems a virgin best. So well it her beseems that ye would ween Some angel she had been. Her long loose yellow locks like golden wire, Sprinkled with pearl, and pearling flowers atween, Do like a golden mantle her attire, And being crowned with a garland green, seem like some maiden Queen...
Procession of the bride
Set by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Procession of the bride", 1957, published 1957 [ baritone, mixed chorus, orchestra ], from cantata Epithalamion, no. 5, London, Oxford University Press [Sung Text]
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
Text Authorship:
- by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), no title, appears in Amoretti and Epithalamion, in Epithalamion, no. 9
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Tell me ye merchants' daughters did ye see So fair a creature in your town before, So sweet, so lovely, and so mild as she, Adorned with beauty's grace and virtue's store?
Text Authorship:
- by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), no title, appears in Amoretti and Epithalamion, in Epithalamion, no. 10
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Notes from text:
Uncrudded = uncurdled.
In your towne. The marriage seems to have taken place in Cork, and we might infer from this passage that the heroine of the song was a merchant's daughter. C.
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Gustav Ringel
Author(s): Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)