Down the smooth stream of life (John Stafford Smith)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-03-22). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 152 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Down the smooth stream of life
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Lyricist: Beilby Porteouscreate page
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1799
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Original text and translations
English text
Down the smooth stream of life the stripling darts,
Gay as the morn; bright glows the vernal sky,
Hope swells his sails, and passion steers his course.
Safe glides his little bark along the shore,
Where virtue takes her stand; but if too far
He launches forth, beyond discretion's mark,
Sudden the tempest scowls, the surges roar,
Blot his fair day, and plunge him in the deep.