Loveliest of trees (John Duke)

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• (Posted 2021-04-14)  CPDL #64057:     

Editor: Eric Esparza (submitted 2021-04-14).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 94 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Loveliest of Trees
Composer: John Duke
Lyricist: A. E. Housman
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Unknown

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

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English text

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.