by Luís de Camões (c1524 - 1580)
Translation by Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, Viscount Strangford (1780 - 1855)
Flowers are fresh and bushes green See original
Language: English after the Portuguese (Português)
Flowers are fresh, and bushes green,
Cheerily the linnets sing;
Winds are soft, and skies serene;
Time, however, soon shall throw
Winter’s snow
O’er the blithesome breast of Spring!
...
Time shall make the bushes green;
Time dissolve the winter snow;
Winds be soft, and skies serene;
Linnets sing their wonted strain:
But again
Blighted love shall never blow!
Composition:
- Set to music by Mary Southcote , "Flowers are fresh and bushes green", published 1815?, stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs & Duetts, no. 3
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, Viscount Strangford (1780 - 1855), "Blighted Love"
Based on:
- a text in Portuguese (Português) by Luís de Camões (c1524 - 1580) [text unavailable]
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Word count: 88