You pretty flowers (John Farmer)

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• CPDL #16009: MIDI and NoteWorthy Composer files

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2008-02-15).   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #7738: Sibelius 2

Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2004-08-09).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 40 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: You pretty flowers
Composer: John Farmer

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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English text

You pretty flowers that smile for summer's sake,
pull in your heads before my wat'ry eyes
do turn the meadows to a standing lake,
by whose untimely floods your glory dies,
for lo, my heart resolved to moist'ning air,
feeding mine eyes, redoubles tear for tear.