Epitaph on Sir John Calf - Callcott, John Wall

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⌛ Period → Classical ◈ Genre → Glees ♬ Voicing → ATTB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

CPDL # 18050

Editor Christopher Shaw

Posted 2008-06-15

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

All people now in your behalf think of the fate of Sir John Calf. O cruel death, more cunning than a fox, that would not let this Calf live til he became an ox. Oh that might have eaten both brambles and thorns and when he came to his father’s years he might have worn the horns.