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by Norman Rowland Gale (1862 - 1942)

Come you, Mary
Language: English 
Come you, Mary, there's a dear!
Mind no more the plaguy dairy!
Milk can never match your white -
Come you, Mary!

All the music of my scythe
Sang you in the heated meadow;
And I turned for you, when fell
Every shadow!

Down with pails, and bring those lips
(Rose leaves in the happy dairy)
To the chestnut where we kiss - 
Come you, Mary!

Text Authorship:

  • by Norman Rowland Gale (1862 - 1942) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885 - 1918), "Come you, Mary", op. 21 no. 2, published 1920 [ tenor and piano ], from Two Pastorals, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 64

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