O Mistress Mine
Ralph Vaughan Williams
partsong for chorus (Elizabethen Songs No. 3)
performed by the chamber Chorus Anonymous
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no farther, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Ev'ry wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty;
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
