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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
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<poem>
Let us Dance, let us Sing,
Let us Dance, let us Sing,
Whilst our Life's in the Spring,
Whilst our Life's in the Spring,
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Let us Revel and play,
Let us Revel and play,
And rejoyce whilst we may,
And rejoyce whilst we may,
Since old Time these delights will remove.
Since old Time these delights will remove.}}
</poem>


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Editor: William Long (submitted 2010-02-17).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 192 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Includes full score and individual parts.

General Information

Title: Let us Dance, let us Sing
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist: Thomas Betterton

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano solo

Genre: SecularAria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

Published: 1690

Description: From Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian.

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Original text and translations

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Let us Dance, let us Sing,
Whilst our Life's in the Spring,
And give all to the great God of Love.
Let us Revel and play,
And rejoyce whilst we may,
Since old Time these delights will remove.