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Our hasty life away doth post (Thomas Tomkins)

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CPDL #19309:

Editor: Diana Thompson (submitted 2009-04-19). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 40 kbytes Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Our hasty life away doth post
Composer: Thomas Tomkins

Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SST
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1622

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English text

Our hasty life away doth post
Before we know what we have lost.
Hours into days, days into years are gone,
Years make a life, which straight is none.
Thus soon is Man's short story told,
We scarce are young, when we are waxed old.

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