O ye roses (Robert Lucas Pearsall)

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(Posted 2019-12-07) CPDL #56201:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-12-07). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 104 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Title: O ye roses
Composer: Robert Lucas Pearsall
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Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1877 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 10, no. 305
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Original text and translations

English text

O ye roses, so blooming and fair!
Go hide your blushes, and droop in despair.
For Flora is coming, my shepherdess true,
And she is a thousand times fairer than you.
See, she comes, the pride of Spring!
United welcome let us sing;
Long live our beauteous Queen of May!
To laud her is our duty.
For in amaze all things do gaze,
Enraptured of her beauty.
Long live our beauteous Queen of May!
To laud her is our duty.