On a hill there grows a flower (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-12)  CPDL #79492:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 533 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: On a hill there grows a flower
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Nicholas Breton
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1894 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 2], Opus 53, No. 1.

(A PASTORAL OF PHILLIS AND CORYDON)

Original text and translations

English text

On a hill there grows a flower,
Fair befall the dainty, dainty sweet!
By that flower there is a bower,
Where the heavenly Muses meet.

In that bower there is a chair,
Fringèd all about with gold,
Where doth sit the fairest fair,
That ever eye did yet behold.

It is Phillis fair and bright,
She that is the shepherd’s joy;
She that Venus did despite,
And did blind her little boy.

Who would not his face admire?
Who would not this saint adore?
Who would not this sight desire,
Tho’ he thought to see no more?

Oh, fair eyes! yet let me see
One good look, and I am gone;
Look on me, for I am he,
Thy poor silly Corydon.

Thou that art the shepherd’s queen,
Look upon thy silly swain;
By thy comfort have been seen
Dead men brought to life again.