"Go, Lovely Rose" by Eric Whitacre

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY Chamber Choir
Anthony Ruiz & Taci Miner, soloists
Dr. Reed Criddle, conductor

Recorded in rehearsal at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Orem, Utah
Jordan Conover, videographer

Poetry by Edmund Waller (1606-1687):

"Go, lovely rose
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Tell her that's young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommented died.

Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired;
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush so to be admired.

Then die! that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share,
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"