I got me flowers

“I got me flowers” is drawn from Vaughan Williams’ “Five Mystical Songs”,  a set of sacred art songs composed between 1906 and 1911. 

original text:

I got me boughs off many a tree:
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st thy sweets along with thee.  
The Sun arising in the East,
Though he give light, and the East perfume;
If they should offer to contest
With thy arising, they presume.  
Can there be any day but this,
Though many suns to shine endeavour?  
We count three hundred, but we miss:
There is but one, and that one ever.