Like to the Damask Rose
Music: Edward Elgar (1857–1934) · Words: Simon Wastell (1560–1635)
Like to the damask rose you see,
Or like a blossom on a tree, Or like a dainty
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The words
Like to the damask rose you see,
Or like a blossom on a tree, Or like a dainty
flow'r of May, Or like the morning of the day,
Or like the sun, or like the shade,
Or like the gourd which Jonas had,
E'en such is man - whose thread is spun,
Drawn out and cut, and so is done.
The rose withers the blossom blasteth,
The flower fades, the morning hasteth,
The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd
consumes ‒‒ the man he dies!
Like to the grass that's newly sprung,
Or like a tale that's new begun,
Or like a bird that's here today,
Or like the pearled dew of May, Or like an
hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a
swan, E'en such is man ‒‒ who lives by breath,
Is here, now there, in life and death.
The grass withers, the tale is ended,
The bird is flown, the dew's ascended;
The hour is short, the span not long;
The hour is short, the span not long;
The swan's near death, Man's life
is done!
About this song
- Music
- Edward Elgar (1857–1934) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Simon Wastell (1560–1635) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1907, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:07
- Its source files it as
- 7 Lieder
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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- France, Mexico, Egypt, Argentina, Chile, Bangladesh, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the member states of the Bangui Agreement (OAPI), Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea, and wherever the site has not read the law
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