O Mistress mine (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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(Posted 2023-12-05) CPDL #77865:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-05). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 275 kB Copyright: Personal

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(Posted 2021-09-29) CPDL #65942:

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2021-09-29). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 62 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: O Mistress Mine
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1913 Joseph Williams Limited
Description: Three Elizabethan Part Songs, No. 3.

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O Mistress mine where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming,
      That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further pretty sweeting.
Journeys end in lovers' meeting,
      Every wise man's son doth know.

What is love, 'tis not hereafter,
Present mirth, hath present laughter:
      What's to come, is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me sweet and twenty:
      Youth's a stuff will not endure.
               -from Twelfth Night

O Mistress mine (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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