The beleaguered (Arthur Sullivan)

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• (Posted 2022-02-04)  CPDL #67887:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-02-04).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 206 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The beleaguered
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Lyricist: Henry Fothergill Chorley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1878 The Orpheus no.2
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Fling wide the gate! come out!
Dauntless and true.
Brothers, of heart be stout,
We are but few.
Bring from the battlements
Our flag again.
Tho' by the leaguer rent,
It hath no stain.
Mothers and wives to prayer,
From morn till eve.
The Lord of Hosts will care
For all we leave,
Plead that we sought not fight,
Nor chose the field.
But ev'ry free heart's right
We dare not yield.

Who needs the trumpet blown
To make him bold?
Who speaks in undertone
Of ransom gold?
Let such his counsel hide
In vault or cave,
We have no time to chide
A willing slave.
Mothers and wives to prayer,
Relief is nigh,
For you each arm will dare
Deeds not to die,
For sure as fire doth blaze,
Or foams the sea,
You shall tonight upraise
Songs of the Free!