Title: I got me flowers (from Five Mystical Songs)
Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Text: George Herbert (1593-1633)
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- I got me flowers
- Key: E♭ Minor
- Range: D♭4 – E♭5
- Source: Five Mystical Songs
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I got me flowers to strew thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st thy sweets along with thee.The Sun arising in the East,
Though he give light, and the East perfume;
If they should offer to contest
With thy arising, they presume.Can there be any day but this,
Though many suns to shine endeavour?
We count three hundred, but we miss:
There is but one, and that one ever.
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