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• Piece: Fair Daffodils
• Composer:  Benjamin Britten
• Voices:  SATB
• Sheet Music:   www.sheetmusicplus.com/ti...  
• Genres: A cappella, Classical
• Sung by us at a singing course in Nottingham in 1977
  
  Fair daffodils, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon;
  As yet the early-rising sun
  Has not attain'd his noon.
  Stay, stay until the hasting day
  Has run b...  moreSung by us at a singing course in Nottingham in 1977
  
  Fair daffodils, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon;
  As yet the early-rising sun
  Has not attain'd his noon.
  Stay, stay until the hasting day
  Has run but to the evensong,
  And, having pray'd together, we
  Will go with you along.
  
  We have short time to stay, as you,
  We have as short a spring;
  As quick a growth to meet decay,
  As you, or anything.
  We die, as your hours do, and dry away,
  Like to the summer's rain,
  Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
  Ne'er to be found again.  less