VOCES8 performs ’Lay a Garland’ by Robert Lucas Pearsall at the Gresham Centre in London.
Lay a garland on her hearse
of dismal yew.
Maidens, willow branches wear,
say she died true.
Her love was false, but she was firm
Upon her buried body lie
lightly, thou gentle earth.
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