My Sweetheart's Like Venus (arr. by G. Holst) | NSKAD

Conductor: Gilles Michels
Choir: Nijmeegs Studentenkoor Alphons Diepenbrock
Performed in the Antonius van Paduakerk in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
June 2021
De gezongen Engelse tekst is een vertaling uit het Welsh, door Stuart Wilson.
tekst:
My sweetheart's like Venus
She's lovely and light
She's fairer than blackthorn
She's slim and she's white
There's no one is like her from far or from near
It's truth I am telling for all men to hear
Her form has the splendour of straight growing trees
Her hair like ripe corn that is stirred in the breeze
Her eyebrows like gossamer that hangs by the door
If only she'd love me
I'd ask nothing more
My sweetheart she loves like a shower of rain
Now clouded, now weeping, now smiling again
But she who loves many is left without one
A faithful true lover has one love alone