The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
When Love and Beauty
From The Sapphire Necklace
Words by H. F. Chorley
Composed 1863-4 and published by Novello & Co., in 1898.
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When Love and Beauty to be married go,
Pheobus, without a cloud,
Pheobus, without a cloud,
Smiles on the pair.
When Love and Beauty to be married go,
Pheobus, without a cloud,
Pheobus, without a cloud,
Smiles on the pair.
Though rose-buds pant and blow,
The birds all sing aloud,
Tumultuous Boreas, whom the cedars bowed,
Tamed, like wane of gentle song doth flow,
Doth gently flow,
Saying, till Echo doth repeat the sound,
Till Echo doth repeat the sound,
"May all who wed in truth with happiness be crown'd,
May all who wed in truth with happiness be crown'd."
It is not wealth and state that smooth the way,
Nor bid the desert bloom,
Nor bid the desert bloom,
Nor bid, nor bid the desert bloom;
The ploughman at his furrow can be gay,
The weaver at his loom.
Where Honour's Lord content his wife hath room,
And hearts keep light if heads are gray,
If even heads are gray,
Singing, till Echo doth repeat the sound,
Singing, till Echo doth repeat the sound,
Singing, till Echo doth repeat the sound,
Repeat the sound,
"May all who wed in truth with happiness be crown'd,
May all who wed in truth with happiness be crown'd."
Autograph manuscript on line at the Pierpont Morgan Library site.
Updated 3 June 2014