Now is my Chloris fresh as May (Walter Battison Haynes)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 561 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Now is my Chloris fresh as May
Composer: Walter Battison Haynes
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1897 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Now is my Chloris fresh as May,
Clad all in green and flowers gay.
Fa la la la la.
O might I think August were near,
That harvest joy might soon appear,
Fa la la la la.
But she keeps May throughout the year,
And August never comes the near.
Fa la la la la.
Yet will I hope, though she be May,
That August will come another day,
Fa la la la la.
from The Song-Books of The Elizabethan Age (1896)
A. H. Bullen