Twist me a crown of wind flowers (Arthur Somervell)

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(Posted 2023-12-10) CPDL #78045:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-10). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 391 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Twist me a crown of wind flowers
Composer: Arthur Somervell
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB soli
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1903 Boosey & Co.
Description: Quartet from “Wind Flowers”

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Original text and translations

English text

Twist me a crown of wind flow’rs,
That I may fly away
To hear the singers at their song,
And players at their play.

Put on your crown of wind flow’rs,—
But whither would you go?
Beyond the singing of the sea
And the storms that blow.

Alas, your crown of wind flow’rs
Can never make you fly,—
I twist them in a crown to-day,
And to-night they die.