Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with...

 Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears:
    [Yet slower, yet; O faintly,]1 gentle springs:
 List to the heavy part the music bears,
    Woe weeps out her [division]2 when she sings.
     Droop herbs and flowers,
     Fall grief in showers,
     Our [beauties are]3 not ours;
      [O, I could still,]4
 Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
     [Drop, drop, drop, drop,]5
    Since [nature's]6 pride is, now, a withered daffodil.

by Ben Jonson (1572-1637) , from Cynthia's Revels, Act I Scene 2.

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

by Leslie R. Bassett (1923-) , "Slow, slow fresh fount", published c1966, from To Music, no. 1.
by John Eaton (1935-) , "Song", from Songs for Ursula, no. 1.
by Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) , "Slow, slow, fresh fount", 1941. [SATB or TTBB]
by Daron Aric Hagen (1961-) , "Echo's song", from Echo's songs, no. 4.
by William Horsley (1774-1858) , "Slow fresh fount", 1811. [partsong]
by Will Ogdon (1921-) , "Slow, slow fresh fount", 1950 [baritone and piano], from Three Baritone Songs, no. 2.
by Daniel Pinkham (1923-) , "Slow, slow fresh fount"
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) , "By a fountainside", op. 12 no. 6, from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, no. 6.
by Ned Rorem (1923-) , "Echo's song"

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