I found it! I know it from the Cambridge Singers tape which I've had for about 20 Years. I googled, "her eyebrows like gossamer." I came up with a bit of junk but, then, found this.

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I have NOOOO idea if this will turn into a link. If you look for the Vancouver Cantata Singers Donations page (on google) you'll find it.


I really hope that this saves someone else's time!

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MY SWEETHEART'S LIKE VENUS (Welsh folksong)
Gustav Holst, arr. (1874-1934) England

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 straightgrowing trees;
Her hair like the corn that is stirr’d 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.