I Got Me Flowers to Strew Thy Way: Words by George Herbert, Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sung by a Soloist at My Church

This is from the Five Mystical Songs. I got me flowers to strew thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree: But thou wast up by break of day, And brought'st thy sweets along with thee.

The Sunne arising in the East. Though he give light, and th'East perfume; If they should offer to contest With thy arising, they presume.

Can there be any day but this, Though many sunnes to shine endeavour? We count three hundred, but we misse: There is but one, and that one ever. #anthems #church #music