The Fly (Huub de Lange)

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Editor: Huub de Lange (added 2007-09-20).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 157 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Fly
Composer: Huub de Lange
Lyricist: William Blake

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2007

Description: Composition on a poem by William Blake (1757-1827). #4 from Four Blake Songs.

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Original text and translations

English text

Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,

Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live
Or if I die.