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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 everCh

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Composer
Daniel Burton
Lyricist
George Herbert

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Tradition(s)
Christianity
Holiday(s)
Easter
Language(s)
English

Musicality

Instrumentation
Organ
Voicing
SATB
Rote
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Solo
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Music

Publisher
Studio 224
Copy type
Octavo

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