O Mistress mine (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-05). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 275 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2021-09-29). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 62 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
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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Original text and translations
English text
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