Around the festive board (Samuel Webbe)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-17). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 249 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
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Title: Around the festive board
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composercreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1782 Warren's eighteenth collection
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Original text and translations
English text
Around the festive board we social join,
Quaffing full draughts of mirth-inspiring wine;
The toast goes round, and beauty's happy reign
Is here exalted, by each cheerful strain.
But what if beauty should with love conspire,
To treat with proud disdain our am'rous fire;
Dethrone the tyrants, and your freedom gain,
By fixing Bacchus evermore to reign.