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- CPDL #25317:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2012-01-10). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 110 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: What is life and all its pride
Composer: Lord Mornington
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published:
Description: From Warren's sixteenth "Collection of Catches, Canons and Glees".
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Original text and translations
English text
What is life and all its pride,
If love and pleasure be denied?
Snatch me hence ye fates whene'er
The am'rous bliss I cease to share.
O let us crop each fragrant flow'r
While youth and vigour give us pow'r;
For frozen age will soon destroy
The pow'r to give and take a joy.