Quilter, Roger - Now Sleeps Crimson Petal (Gb major)

Instrumentation: High Voice And Piano

Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, London
ISMN: M-060-02182-4
ISBN: 979-0-060-02182-4

Text:

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me.
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.