Like To The Damask Rose-Yvonne Kenny/Caroline Almonte

[ti:Like To The Damask Rose] [ar:Yvonne Kenny/Caroline Almonte] [al:The Salley Gardens: A Treasury Of English Song] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.70]Like To The Damask Rose - Yvonne Kenny/Caroline Almonte [00:01.98]Written by：Sir Edward Elgar [00:02.98] [00:11.71]Like to the damask rose you see [00:15.28]Or like the blossom on the tree [00:19.26]Or like the dainty flow'r of may [00:23.58]Or like the morning of the day [00:27.64]Or like the sun or like the shade [00:33.15]Or like the gourd which jonas had [00:38.79]Even such is man whose thread is spun [00:46.89]Drawn out and cut and so is done [00:57.03] [00:58.24]The rose withers the blossom blasteth [01:03.34] [01:04.47]The flower fades the morning hasteth [01:09.71]The sun sets the shadow flies [01:14.70]The gourd consumes and man he dies [01:24.20] [01:32.98]Like to the grass that's newly sprung [01:36.65]Or like a tale that's new begun [01:40.31]Or like the bird that's here to day [01:44.24]Or like the pearled dew of may [01:48.46]Or like an hour or like a span [01:53.03] [01:53.55]Or like the singing of a swan [01:59.46]Even such is man who lives by breath [02:07.99]Is here now there in life and death [02:18.67] [02:19.45]The grass withers the tale is ended [02:25.38]The bird is flown the dew's ascended [02:31.38]The hour is short the span not long [02:35.14]The hour is short the span not long [02:38.55]The swan's near death man's life is done