by Nahum Tate (1652 - 1715)
Sound the Trumpet and beat the warlike...
Language: English
Sound the Trumpet and beat the warlike Drum; The Prince will be with laurels crown’d Before his manhood comes. Ah! how pleas’d he is and gay, When the Trumpet strikes his ear! His hands like shaking lilies play And catch at ev’ry spear.
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Text Authorship:
- by Nahum Tate (1652 - 1715) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "Sound the Trumpet and beat the warlike Drum;
", Z. 342 no. 6 (1695), from Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester, no. 6. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2014-06-29
Line count: 7
Word count: 43