Come and let us live - Samuel Webbe Jr.

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"4 part glee probably composed for ATTB male voices. The text is a translation in verse by Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 25 August 1649), of the poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC)"

⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Glees

♯ Key D major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → ATTB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G2 – C#5

¶ Language → English

Measures 71

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 24188

Editor Jonathan Goodliffe

Posted 2011-08-19

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

[Counter- tenor]

E3 – C#5

[Tenor]

C#3 – G4

Bass

G2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

Come and let us live my Dear, Let us love and never fear, What the sourest Fathers say: Brightest Sol that dies today Lives again as blithe tomorrow, But if we dark sons of sorrow Set; o then, how long a Night Shuts the Eyes of our short light! Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin to tell A Thousand, and a Hundred, score An Hundred, and a Thousand more, Till another Thousand smother That, and that wipe off another. Thus at last when we have numb’red Many a Thousand, many a Hundred; We’ll confound the reckoning quite, And lose ourselves in wild delight: While our joys so multiply, As shall mock the envious eye.