Summer Memories 3 - Sunshine and Flowers

With a little verse from William Shakespeare

 

Verse (Ariel)
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly

Refrain
After summer merrily.
Merrily,
Merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. {original text ends here}

(Piano Interlude)

Verse
Where the bee sucks, there suck I: {my additions and repetitions}
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly. . .

(Cello & Harpsichord Soli)

Verse
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
On the bat’s back I do fly

Refrain
After summer merrily.
Merrily,
Merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough
(Interlude a key higher)

. . . hangs on the bough . . .
. . . shall I live now . . .

Coda
Merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
Where the bee sucks, there suck I!

 

and a nice photo from Larra