Have you seen the bright lily grow ( Andreas Scholl)

Andreas Scholl sings John Dowland s song Have you seen the bright lily grow Robert Johnson, lyrics Julian Behr, lute from the album Crystal Tears Harmonia Mundi (C) 2008 Artworks by Zeng Hao FLOWERINGS 3D Fractalscape John Dowland (1563 buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist. Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it Have you marked but the fall of snow Before the soil hath smutched it Have you felt the wool of beaver, Or swan s down ever Or have smelt o the bud o the brier, Or the nard in the fire Or have tasted the bag of the bee O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she