Name: The Lent Lily
Duration: P00H01M31S
Description: My setting of a relatively cheerful poem from 'A Shropshire Lad', though being Housman, he still can't resist suggesting that the daffodil - which is said to bloom between Ash Wednesday and Easter, though here in Cornwall we start seeing them long before Lent - actually dies on Easter Sunday.

The Lent Lily

from So Sound You Sleep (More Tears of Morning) by David A. Harley

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My setting of a relatively cheerful poem from 'A Shropshire Lad', though being Housman, he still can't resist suggesting that the daffodil - which is said to bloom between Ash Wednesday and Easter, though here in Cornwall we start seeing them long before Lent - actually dies on Easter Sunday.

lyrics

‘A Shropshire Lad’ XXIX

‘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.

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from So Sound You Sleep (More Tears of Morning), released February 8, 2023
Vocal, guitar and melody by David A. Harley. Words by A.E. Housman.

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David A. Harley England, UK

David Harley is a former professional musician, administrator, IT security editor, author and researcher, and former much else that is even less impressive. He now lives in Cornwall. More info at whealalice.com