Awake, ye dead, Z 182 (Henry Purcell)

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• (Posted 2015-03-07)  CPDL #34748:      Finale 2004

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-03-07).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 491 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Awake, ye dead
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist: Nahum Tate

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: BB

Genre: Sacred, Sacred song

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

Published: 1693

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English text

Awake, awake, ye dead, the trumpet calls,
Awake, awake, to sleep no more;

Hark! from aloft the frozen region falls,
With noise so loud it deafs the ocean's roar;
Alarm'd, amaz'd the clatt'ring orbs come down.

The virtuous soul alone appears,
Unmov'd, while earth's foundations shake,
Ascends, and mocks the universal wreck.