Lovely Venus (Gustav Holst)
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- Editor: Jan Wilke (submitted 2019-08-23). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 55 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Lovely Venus
Composer: Gustav Holst
Lyricist: Helen Waddellcreate page
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: 3 equal voices
Genre: Secular, Canon
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1932
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Original text and translations
English text
Lovely Venus, what's to do
If the loved loves not again?
Beauty passes, youth's undone,
Violets wither, 'spite of dew,
Roses shrivel in the sun,
Lillies all their whiteness stain.
Lady, take these home to you,
And who loves thee, love again.