Go, lovely Rose (John George Callcott)

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• (Posted 2023-10-01)  CPDL #75934:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-01).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 478 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Go, lovely Rose
Composer: John George Callcott
Lyricist: Edmund Waller
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, B divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1887 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

    Go, lovely Rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
    That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.

    Tell her that’s young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
    That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.

    Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired:
    Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush so to be admired.

    Then die! that she
The common fate of all things rare
    May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!