# Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry now

- Music: Arthur Somervell (died 1937)
- Words: Alfred Edward Housman (died 1936)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6210838

## The words

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung  
with bloom along the bough, And stands about  
the woodland ride Wearing white for  
Eastertide.  
Now, of my threescore years and ten,  
Twenty will not come again, And take from  
seventy springs a score, It only leaves me  
fifty more.  
And since to look at things in bloom Fifty  
springs are little room, About the woodlands  
I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).