Flowers for Men (Paul Merkus)

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• (Posted 2022-07-03)  CPDL #69865:           

Editor: Paul Merkus (submitted 2022-07-03).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 143 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Final update with minor refinements

• (Posted 2022-04-02)  CPDL #68704:          

Editor: Paul Merkus (submitted 2022-04-02).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 129 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Flowers for Men
Composer: Paul Merkus
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2022
Description: 

External websites:

• https://pmerkus.dse.nl/Spheren/Html/op88.shtml

Original text and translations

English text

Here's flowers for you:
Hot lavender, mints,
Savoury, marjoram;

The marigold that goes to bed with the sun.
And with him rises, weeping:
these are flowers of middle summer.

To men of middle age.
I think they are given to men,
to men of middle age.