# Like to the Damask Rose

- Music: Edward Elgar (died 1934)
- Words: Simon Wastell (died 1635)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6236149

## 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!  

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).