Down the smooth stream of life (John Stafford Smith)

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• (Posted 2021-03-22)  CPDL #63616: 

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 Porteous^{create page}

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1799
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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.