Fond youth is a bubble (Thomas Tallis)
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General Information
Title: Fond youth is a bubble
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
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Original text and translations
English text
Fond youth is a bubble blown up with breath
whose wit is weakness, whose wage is death,
whose way is wilderness, whose inn penance;
and stoop gallant age, the host of grievance.



