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The Lent Lily
A sprightly song about the beauty of spring.
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Loveliest of Trees
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When I Was One-and-Twenty
SA chorus, piano
“The Lent Lily” is from A. E. Housman’s well-known collection of poems entitled A Shropshire Lad. Composer Timothy Hoekman has set three of these poems for SA chorus and piano, the other two poems being “Loveliest of Trees” and “When I Was One-and-Twenty.” These musical settings attempt to capture the sometimes folk-like, sometimes deep and sophisticated qualities of Housman’s poetry. These three songs work together well as a set, but each can also be sung individually.
Text
‘Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The primroses are found.
And there’s the windflower chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there’s the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter Day.
And since till girls go maying
You find the primrose still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring’s array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter Day.
-A. E. Housman
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