Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Four Motets for Christmas: I. O magnum mysterium, artist - Robert Shaw. Album song Poulenc: Mass In G, Prayers Of St. Francis, Motets For Christmas & Lent, in the genre Мировая классика
Date of issue: 31.05.1990
Record label: Telarc
Song language: English
Four Motets for Christmas: I. O magnum mysterium |
What then is love but mourning? |
What desire but a self-burning? |
Till she that hates doth love return |
Thus I will mourn, thus will I sing, |
Come away, come away, my darling. |
Beauty is but a blooming, |
Youth in his glory entombing; |
Time hath a while which none can stay, |
So come away while I thus sing, |
Come away, come away, my darling. |
Summer in winter fadeth, |
Gloomy night heav’nly light shadeth, |
Like to the morn are Venus' flowers, |
Such are her hours, then will I sing, |
Come away, come away, my darling. |