Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: The silver swan
• Composer:  Orlando Gibbons
• Genres: A cappella, Classical
• The silver swan, who living had no note,
  When death approached, unlocked her silent throat;
  Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
  Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:
  “Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close m...  moreThe silver swan, who living had no note,
  When death approached, unlocked her silent throat;
  Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
  Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:
  “Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes;
  More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.”