Description
Arrangement of John Dowland’s “Flow not so fast ye fountains” with guitar accompaniment.
I have added an optional descant which can be played on a flute (or alto recorder).
Flow not so fast, ye fountains;
What needeth all this haste?
Swell not above your mountains,
Nor spend your time in waste.
Gentle springs, freshly your salt tears
Must still fall dropping from their spheres.
Weep they apace whom Reason
Or ling’ring Time can ease.
My sorrow can no Season,
Nor aught beside appease.
Gentle springs, freshly your salt tears
Must still fall dropping from their spheres.
Time can abate the terror
Of every common pain;
But common grief is error,
True grief will still remain.
Gentle springs, freshly your salt tears
Must still fall dropping from their spheres.
It is performed here by
Sheralyn Rennert and David Warin Solomons
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