Video Information

• Choir: Roundelay
• Piece: Fair Daffodils
• Composer:  Harold Darke
• Conductor:  Alan Myerscough
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical
• Words by Robert Herrick, music by Harold Darke
  Fair daffodils, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon;
  As yet the early-rising sun
  Has not attained his noon.
  Stay, stay, until the hasting day
  Has run but to the eve...  moreWords by Robert Herrick, music by Harold Darke
  Fair daffodils, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon;
  As yet the early-rising sun
  Has not attained his noon.
  Stay, stay, until the hasting day
  Has run but to the evensong;
  And, having prayed together,
  we will go with you along.
  
  We have short time to stay as you,
  We have as short a spring;
  As quick a growth to meet decay,
  As you or anything.
  We die as your hours do, and dry away
  Like to the summer’s rain;
  Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
  Ne’er to be found again.  less