Eric Whitacre conducts VOCES8 singing 'Go Lovely Rose' in the VOCES8 Centre in London. The performance is taken from the Live From London digital concert which was filmed when Eric and the group recorded their 'Home' album together in April 2022.

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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 uncommended 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!

Edmund Waller, 16061687