Oh for the swords of former time (Alfred Robert Gaul)
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- (Posted 2023-10-18) CPDL #76458:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-18). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 482 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Oh for the swords of former time
Composer: Alfred Robert Gaul
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1864 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Oh for the swords of former time!
Oh for the men who bore them,
When, arm’d for Right, they stood sublime,
And tyrants crouch’d before them!
When free yet, ere courts began
With honours to enslave him,
The best honours worn by man
Were those which Virtue gave him!
Oh for the swords of former time!
Oh for the men who bore them!
When arm’d with Right, they stood sublime,
And tyrants crouch’d before them!
Oh for the kings who flourished then,
Oh for the pomp that crowned them,
When hearts and hands of freeborn men
Were all the ramparts round them!
When safe built on bosoms true,
The throne was but the centre
Round which Love a circle drew
That Treason durst not enter.
Oh for the kings who flourished then,
Oh for the pomp that crowned them,
When hearts and hands of freeborn men
Were all the ramparts round them!