O ye roses (Robert Pearsall)

O ye roses by Robert Pearsall
Performed by the Summer Fling Singers
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Lifecycles: Madrigals about life and loss by John Wilbye and Robert Pearsall - August 24, 2024
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O ye roses, so blooming and fair!
Go hide your soft blushes, and droop in despair.
For Flora is coming, my shepherdess true,
And she is a thousand times fairer than you.
See she comes, the pride of Spring!
United, welcome let us sing.
Long live our beauteous Queen of May!
To laud her is our duty.
For in amaze all things do gaze,
Enraptured of her beauty.