"The Yeomen of the Guard; or The Merryman and his Maid" is a comic musical opera written by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert in 1888. Gilbert and Sullivan were a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). Together they collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, which are still performed and loved today. Among their most famous works are 'H.M.S....

A suitor's song of woe for the love he believes he has lost.