Gentle swains, unseal your eyes (John Danby)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-17).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 180 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Gentle swains, unseal your eyes
Composer: John Danby
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: SecularGlee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1785
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Original text and translations

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Gentle swains, unseal your eyes,
Beauteous nymphs from slumber rise;
Rise and see the morn appears,
Object of our hopes and fears.

Heav'n upon your labour smiles,
Bids you cease this day from toils;
Bids it sacred be to mirth,
That to the god of love gave birth.