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Albion, thy sea-encircled isle | Albion, thy sea-encircled isle | ||
With plenty shall forever smile. | With plenty shall forever smile. | ||
Kind Nature sheds her genial showers | Kind Nature sheds her genial showers | ||
To raise thy fruits and paint thy flowers, | To raise thy fruits and paint thy flowers, | ||
While all the graces of the spring | While all the graces of the spring | ||
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- (Posted 2011-01-03) CPDL #22945:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-01-03). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 81 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: Albion, thy sea-encircled isle
Composer: Benjamin Cooke
Lyricist: Probably the composer
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: From Warren's eighteenth "Collection of Catches, Canons and Glees".
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
Albion, thy sea-encircled isle
With plenty shall forever smile.
Kind Nature sheds her genial showers
To raise thy fruits and paint thy flowers,
While all the graces of the spring
Along thy cheerful valleys sing.
What Nature yields, what arts command,
Is found in Britain's happy land.