Orlando Gibbons : The Silver Swan sheet music

Orlando Gibbons (biography)

25 December 1583

5 June 1625 , Canterbury

Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He is considered one of the finest composer of the English Renaissance.

1612

LYRICS:
The silver swan, who living had no note,
When death approached, unlocked her silent throat;
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:
“Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes;
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.”

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