Begin the song (John Danby)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-17). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 83 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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General Information
Title: Begin the song
Composer: John Danby
Lyricist: Abraham Cowley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: Unknown
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1785
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Original text and translations
Unknown language
Begin the song, and strike the living lyre:
Lo, how the years to come,
A numerous and well-fitted quire
All hand in hand do decently advance,
And to my song with smooth
And equal measure dance.
While the dance lasts, how long so e'er it be,
My music's voice shall bear it company;
Till all gentle notes be drown'd
In the last trumpet's dreadful sound.