In a glorious garden green (William Wallace)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-15). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 640 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: In a glorious garden green
Composer: William Wallace
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1897 Patterson & Sons
Description: Variation of the “White Rose Carol”–a ballad about Elizabeth of York, spouse of Henry VII; The marriage ended the War of the Roses, and she was mother of Henry VIII. The White Rose being of the House of York; the Fleur-de-lis of the Tudor Crown.
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Original text and translations
English text
In a glorious garden green,
Saw I sitting a comely Queen
Among the flow’rs that freshé been,
She pluck’d a rose of royal mien.
And ever she sang, as she sat among
The lily white flow’rs that deck’d the lawn;
The gentle day doth dawn,
I must home be gone.
In that garden’s glorious hue
Were flow’rs that she well knew;
The fleur-de-lis that is most true,
The gilly flow’r gent, the violet rue.