The fountain (Vaughan, set by E. Elgar) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 The unthrift sun shot vital gold,
 A thousand, thousand pieces;
 And heav'n its azure did unfold
 Chequer'd with snowy fleeces;
 The air was all in spice,
 And ev'ry bush
 A garland wore:
 Thus fed my eyes,
 But all the earth lay hush,
 Only a little fountain lent
 Some use for ears,
 And on the dumb shades language spent,
 The music of her tears.

Authorship

Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

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