Washington National Cathedral: Easter Day Organ Recital; Blossom; Easter Eggs; Loveliest of Trees

About the organ recital

About Christopher Betts

A. E. Housman, Loveliest of Trees

LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now 

Is hung with bloom along the bough, 

And stands about the woodland ride 

Wearing white for Eastertide. 

Now, of my threescore years and ten, 

Twenty will not come again, 

And take from seventy springs a score, 

It only leaves me fifty more. 

And since to look at things in bloom 

Fifty springs are little room, 

About the woodlands I will go 

To see the cherry hung with snow.

George Butterworth setting