by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Recitative. But oh, when age, life’s winter comes
 (Sung text for setting by W. Hayes)
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Language: English 
But oh, when age, life’s winter comes, 
What then my fair-one say. 
What wit, art, object power or sums, 
What then will make us gay?

Composition:

    Set to music by William Hayes (1708 - 1777), "Recitative. But oh, when age, life’s winter comes", published 1748 [ voice and continuo ], from cantata A winter scene at Ross in Herefordshire, no. 2, Verified with Six Cantatas Set to Musick by William Hayes Bac. Mus. Organist of Magd. Coll. and Professor in the University of Oxford, London 1748.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, first published 1748

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