Free download. You get pdf of the score, mp3 of the song, and rehearsal mp3s of each of the vocal parts. In Amidons' book 'Fifty-five Anthems for the Small Church Choir'. Sung here by the Friends-of-the-Amidons-Singers. Originally a 13th century Latin poem set to the tune "Tempus Adest Floridum" (later used as the tune for "Good King Wenceslas"), this beautiful English translation was done for the Oxford Book of Carols in 1928. The Amidons learned this spring carol from Tony Barrand. Below are the English lyrics; below that are the original Latin lyrics; both scan beautifully. Here is Jean Ritchie singing the Flower Carol.LYRICS Flower Caroloriginal Latin from the Swedish Piae Cantiones, 1582translated to English for the Oxford Book of Carols in 1928Spring has now unwrapped the flowers,Day is fast reviving.Life in all her growing powers,Towards the light is striving.Gone the iron touch of cold,Winter time and frost time,Seedlings working through the mould,Now make up for lost time.Herb and plant that, winter long,Slumbered at their leisure,Now bestirring, green and strong,Find in growth their pleasure:All the world with beauty fills,Gold the green enhancing;Flowers make glee among the hillsAnd set the meadows dancing.Earth puts on her dress of glee;Flowers and grasses hide her;We go forth in charity–Brothers all beside her;For as man this glory seesIn the awakening season,Reason learns the heart’s decrees,And hearts are led by reason.Through each wonder of fair daysGod herself expressesBeauty follows all her waysAs the world she blesses;So as she renews the earth,Artist without rival,In the grace of glad new birthWe must seek revival.Original LatinTempus adest floridum, surgent namque floresVernales in omnibus, imitantur moresHoc quod frigus laeserat, reparant caloresCernimus hoc fieri, per multos labores.Sunt prata plena floribus, iucunda aspectuUbi iuvat cernere, herbas cum delectuGramina et plantae hyeme quiescuntVernali in tempore virent et accrescunt.Haec vobis pulchre monstrant Deum creatoremQuem quoque nos credimus omnium factoremO tempus ergo hilare, quo laetari libetRenovato nam mundo, nos novari decet.Terra ornatur floribus et multo decoreNos honestis moribus et vero amoreGaudeamus igitur tempore iucundoLaudemusque Dominum pectoris ex fundo.
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