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John Bennet

All Creatures Now  Play

The Grant Park Music Festival’s Apprentice Chorale Chorale
Project Inclusion String Quartet Quartet
Christopher Bell Conductor

Recorded on 06/21/2017, uploaded on 05/04/2018

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All Creatures Now by John Bennet

All creatures now are merry minded,
The shepherd's daughters playing,
the nymphs are falalaing.
Yon bugle was well winded.
At Oriana's presence each thing smileth.
The flow'rs themselves discover,
Birds over her do hover,
Music the time beguileth,
See where she comes,
with flow'ry garlands crowned,
Queen of all queens renowned.
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana,
"Long live fair Oriana!"