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Love's Garland
Tune: Come Haste to the Wedding


How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain,
      And sweet are the cowslips that spangle the grove,
And sweet is the breeze that blows over yon mountain,
      Yet none is so sweet as the lad that I love.

            Then I'll weave him a garland,
            A fresh flowing garland,
            With lilies and roses
            And sweet blooming posies
A garland I'll weave for the Lad that I love.

I was down in the vale, where the sweet Porza gliding
      Its murmuring stream ripples through the dark grove,
I own'd what I felt, all my passion confiding,
      To ease the fond heart of the Lad that I love.



            Then I'll weave him a garland,
            A fresh flowing garland,
            With lilies and roses
            And sweet blooming posies
A garland I'll weave for the Lad that I love.

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Historical Background
I'LL WEAVE HIM A GARLAND - "How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain" - spangle - grove - breezes - ROUD#1247 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p72 Mrs Rowles, Witney, Oxfordsh 3v/ch (w/o)

GARLAND OF LOVE, THE - "How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain" - ROUD#1247 - BSs - Parlour Songster (c1856) p158

GARLAND OF LOVE, THE - Tunebook Ms 6/8 (D) #168 p237 ("Haste to the Wedding ")


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