Oh for the swords of former time - Gaul, Alfred Robert

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◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments Piano

Pages 8

CPDL # 76458

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2023-10-18

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Oh for the swords of former time! Oh for the men who bore them, When, arm’d for Right, they stood sublime, And tyrants crouch’d before them! When free yet, ere courts began With honours to enslave him, The best honours worn by man Were those which Virtue gave him! Oh for the swords of former time! Oh for the men who bore them! When arm’d with Right, they stood sublime, And tyrants crouch’d before them! Oh for the kings who flourished then, Oh for the pomp that crowned them, When hearts and hands of freeborn men Were all the ramparts round them! When safe built on bosoms true, The throne was but the centre Round which Love a circle drew That Treason durst not enter. Oh for the kings who flourished then, Oh for the pomp that crowned them, When hearts and hands of freeborn men Were all the ramparts round them!

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