Now the woodland chorists sing (John Danby)

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• (Posted 2022-02-07)  CPDL #67953: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-02-07).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Now the woodland chorists sing
Composer: John Danby
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1789
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English text

Now the woodland chorists sing,
Beauty takes her radiant sphere.
Love adorns the smiling spring,
Love and beauty gild the year.
Seize the minutes as they fly,
Jocund hours and festive round;
Innocence, with virgin eye,
Comes with rural chaplets crown'd.