Sepulchre L.M.
By William Cleary
- Key
- F major
- Time signature
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3
2 - Composed
- 2022
- Text
- Philip Doddridge, 1755
Listen to recordings
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Sepulchre, 2022 London composium
Description
Thank you to the London singers for trying this out at the composium before their 2022 all-day, and thanks to Connie for making a recording.
Text
The Sepulchres, how thick they stand
Halle - Hallelujah!
Through all the road on either hand!
Halle - Hallelujah!
And bursting in the starting sight
Halle - Hallelujah!
In ev’ry garden of delight!
Halle - Hallelujah!
Thither the winding alleys tend;
There all the flowr’y borders end
And forms, that charm'd the eye before,
Fragrance and music are no more.
Deep in that damp and silent cell
My fathers and my brethren dwell;
Beneath its broad and gloomy shade
My kindred, and my friends are laid.