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by William Blake (1757 - 1827)

Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age!
Language: English 
Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age! Set your foreheads against the
ignorant hirelings! For we have hirelings in the Camp, the Court, and
the University, who would, if they could, for ever depress mental, and
prolong corporeal war. [Painters! on you I call. Sculptors!
Architects! suffer not the fashionable fools to depress your powers by
the prices they pretend to give for contemptible works, or the
expensive advertising boasts that they make of such
works:]1 believe Christ and His Apostles that there is a
class of men whose [whole]2 delight is in destroying. [We
do not want either Greek or Roman models if we are but just and true
to our own Imaginations, those Worlds of Eternity in which we shall
live for ever, in Jesus our Lord. ]1

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Bush 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 omitted by Bush.
Bush: "sole"

Text Authorship:

  • by William Blake (1757 - 1827), appears in Selections from Milton, from the preface [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 Alan Dudley Bush (1900 - 1995), "Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age!", op. 41 no. 3 (1952) [tenor and piano], from Voices of the Prophets, no. 3. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-01-24
Line count: 12
Word count: 135

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