Gather ye Rose-buds (Henry Charles Banister)

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•  Posted on 2023-09-18(Posted 2023-09-18)  CPDL #75467:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-18).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 281 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Gather ye Rose-buds
Composer: Henry Charles Banister
Lyricist: Robert Herrick
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1852 Leader & Cock
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

To the Virgins, to make much of Time

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
   Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
   To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
   The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
   And nearer he’s to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
   When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
   Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
   And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
   You may for ever tarry.