I praise the tender flower (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2017-07-16)  CPDL #45469:       

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-07-16).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: I praise the tender flower
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Robert Bridges

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: S

Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

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Original text and translations

English text

I praise the tender flower,
That on a mournful day
Bloomed in my garden bower
And made the winter gay.
Its loveliness contented
My heart tormented.

I praise the gentle maid
Whose happy voice and smile
To confidence betrayed
My doleful heart awhile;
And gave my spirit deploring
Fresh wings for soaring.

The maid for very fear
Of love I durst not tell:
The rose could never hear,
Though I bespake her well:
So in my song I bind them
For all to find them.