by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Let's now take our time
Language: English
Let's now take our time While [w'are]1 in our prime, And old, old age is afar off: For the evil, evil days Will come on apace, Before we can be aware of.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To be merry" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "To be merry", op. 23 (Twenty-one songs) no. 5 (1916) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Morning song", op. 7 no. 3 (c1905), published 1907 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Five Lyics of Robert Herrick, no. 3, Forsyth [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-31
Line count: 6
Word count: 32