Lady, lay those frowns aside (Ernest Halsey)

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• (Posted 2023-10-24)  CPDL #76586:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 759 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Lady, lay those frowns aside
Composer: Ernest Halsey
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1922 Novello and Co.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Lady, lay those frowns aside;
Winter reigns not all the year.
The laughing Spring, a flow’r-deck’d bride,
Has chased away the tyrant drear.
Then listen, lady, to my lay;
Why in your heart should winter stay?
Time’s wing will crush the flow’ret’s bloom,
And love has wings as well as darts;
The flowers must yield them to their doom,
And love rests only in young hearts;
Then listen, lady, to my lay;
Whate’er has wings will fly away.
But time and love are both your own,
Your charms now blossom in their prime;
Enjoy them ere the hours be flown,
And leave to Fate the wintry time.
Then listen, lady, to my lay;
Gather the rosebuds° while you may!

°reads “roses” in an earlier magazine version of the poem.