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Ego flos campi
Language: Latin 
[ ... ]
En dilectus meus loquitur mihi.
   [Surge, propera, amica mea, 
   columba mea, formosa mea, et veni:]1
jam enim hiems transiit; imber abiit, et recessit.
Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra;
   tempus putationis advenit:
   vox turturis audita est in terra nostra;
ficus protulit grossos suos;
   vineæ florentes dederunt odorem suum.
   Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea, et veni:
columba mea, in foraminibus petræ, 
   in caverna maceriæ,
   ostende mihi faciem tuam,
   sonet vox tua in auribus meis:
   vox enim tua dulcis, 
   et facies tua decora.
[ ... ]

G. Ghedini sets lines 8-10
G. Palestrina sets lines 8-10 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
I. Pizzetti sets line 5 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
I. Pizzetti sets lines 10-13 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
G. Palestrina sets lines 16-17 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information

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See also G. Jackson's I am the rose of Sharon.

See also Daniel-Lesur's Dialogue.

1 omitted by Ghedini and Palestrina.

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-11-22
Line count: 51
Word count: 247

Language: English  after the Latin 
 ... 
 ... ,
   Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past,
   the rain is over and gone;
the flowers appear on the earth;
   the time of the singing of birds is come,
   and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
the fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
   and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
   Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock,
   in the secret places of the stairs,
   let me see thy countenance,
   let me hear thy voice;
   for sweet is thy voice,
   and thy countenance is comely.
 ...

Composition:

    Set to music by Howard Skempton (b. 1947), "Rise up, my love", first performed 2002, lines 10-14 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Rise up, my love, no. 1, begins "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away"

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-07-10
Line count: 52
Word count: 368