by Nahum Tate (1652 - 1715)
Celebrate this festival
Language: English
Crown the altar, deck the shrine. Behold the bright seraphic throng prepar'd our harmony to join, the sacred choir attend too long.
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), "Celebrate this festival", Z. 321 (1693), from Birthday Ode for Queen Mary [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 22