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Refrain:
Strike up your instruments of joy
To honor this, the Day of Days.
Trumpets, your stirring voice employ,
Employ in golden phrase on phrase.

Let drums beat and oboes play
In mazes of delight.
Cymbals sharp and tambour may
Ring bold through day and night. Refrain

Let sire and dame proclaim the joy
That pulses free through every vein,
Maids too and every lively boy,
Take up the fresh and brave refrain.

Rebacs, shawms, and curtals trace
A thousand golden ways;
Clarions and rackets race
To join in lovely praise. Refrain
—John Edmunds