Now the woodland chorists sing (John Danby)
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- 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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Original text and translations
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.