The Sapphire Necklace

When Love and Beauty (Madrigal)
(With Sullivan's repeats eliminated)


 * When Love and Beauty to be married go,
 * Pheobus, without a cloud,
 * Smiles on the pair.
 * Though rose-buds pant and blow,
 * The birds all sing aloud,
 * Tumultuous Boreas, whom the cedars bowed,
 * Tamed, like wane of gentle song doth flow,
 * Saying, till Echo doth repeat the sound,
 * "May all who wed in truth with happiness be crown'd."


 * It is not wealth and state that smooth the way,
 * Nor bid the desert bloom,
 * The ploughman at his furrow can be gay,
 * The weaver at his loom.
 * Where Honour's Lord content his wife hath room,
 * And hearts keep light if heads are gray,
 * Singing, till Echo doth repeat the sound,
 * "May all who wed in truth with happiness be crown'd."

Over the Roof

 * Over the roof and over the wall,
 * Grow, grow, the jessamine grow.
 * For ever and ever more white and tall
 * (No matter the dwelling be high or low!)
 * For yet palace be lofty and moat be wide
 * And mailed the bridge and lordly the towers,
 * There love can prevail over pomp and pride
 * Like the cherished beauty of those sweet flowers!
 * Love, love, love.
 * Love will not alter under the sun
 * While the woods grow and the waters run!


 * Down by the meadow, down to the sea
 * (Flow, flow, the river will flow)
 * The turf may be green, or wither'd the tree
 * (But the heat is the same on the cobble below.)
 * For whatever the season around that deep stream,
 * Be it snow-white winter or summer hot,
 * There is love, tho' a wand'rer as some might dream
 * Who passes and passes, yet changes not.
 * Ah! Love, love, love.
 * Love will be master under the sun
 * While the wood grows and the waters run!