# The Windflower

- Music: Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (died 1935)
- Words: Harold Boulton (died 1935)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6416290

## The words

Ere buds and blades are springing,  
Or swallows northward winging,  
The white windflower appears.  
In many an upland valley And frostbound  
woodland alley Her starlike head she rears,  
Her starlike head she rears.  
The cold east wind hath kissed her,  
The snowflakes call her “sister”,  
And nestle at her side.  
So meek she lives and lowly, So fragile pure  
and holy, The spring’s unsullied bride The  
spring’s unsullied bride.  
But, when the hot sun showers His strength on  
summer flowers, Her short sweet life is done.  
So we one day discover Our life’s first bloom  
is over, Our Love’s first promise gone,  
Our Love’s first promise gone.  

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).