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Crowned with flowers (William Byrd)
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General Information
Title: Crowned with flowers
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets... (1611), no.22
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Original text and translations
English text
Crowned with flowres I saw faire Amarillis,
by Thirsis sit, hard by a fount of Christall,
And with her hand more white then snow or Lillies,
On sand shee wrote, my faith shall be immortall,
And sodainely a storme of winde and weather,
Blew all her faith and sand away together.


