L'Envoy (Simon Biazeck)
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- Editor: Simon Biazeck (submitted 2016-03-16). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 125 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: L'Envoy
Composer: Simon Biazeck
Lyricist: George Herbert
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
First published: 2011
Description: This setting uses selected lines. The repeat of lines 1 - 6 at b. 37 to the end is not part of the original poem. The full text may be found at the following link: http://allpoetry.com/L'Envoy
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Original text and translations
English text
King of glorie, King of peace,
With the one make warre to cease;
With the other blesse thy sheep,
Thee to love, in thee to sleep.
Let not Sinne devoure thy fold,
Bragging that thy bloud is cold,
That thy flesh hath lost his food,
And thy Crosse is common wood.