Foresters, sound the cheerful horn (Henry Rowley Bishop)

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  • (Posted 2021-03-14)  CPDL #63460:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-03-14).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 187 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Foresters, sound the cheerful horn
Composer: Henry Rowley Bishop
Lyricist: J. Petrecreate page

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: SecularGlee

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

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Original text and translations

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Forresters sound the cheerful horn,
hark to the woods away
Diana with her nymphs this morn
will hunt the stag away.

At length return'd from healthful chace,
let Bacchus crown the day
While Venus with seducing grace
shall all our toil repay
All our toil, all our toil, all our toil repay.