What is life and all its pride (Lord Mornington)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2012-01-10). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 110 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: What is life and all its pride
Composer: Lord Mornington

Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Description: From Warren's sixteenth "Collection of Catches, Canons and Glees".

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What is life and all its pride,

If love and pleasure be denied?

Snatch me hence ye fates whene'er

The am'rous bliss I cease to share.

O let us crop each fragrant flow'r

While youth and vigour give us pow'r;

For frozen age will soon destroy

The pow'r to give and take a joy.