Cupid once upon a bed of roses (John Varley Roberts)

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• (Posted 2022-06-09)  CPDL #69638:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-06-09).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 152 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Cupid once upon a bed of roses
Composer: John Varley Roberts
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 The Orpheus (New series) no.238
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Cupid once upon a bed
Of roses laid his weary head,
Luckless urchin, not to see
Within the leaves a slumbering bee,
The bee awaked, with anger wild,
The bee awaked, and stung the child,
Loud and piteous are his cries,
To Venus quick, he runs, he flies,
O mother, I am wounded through,
I die with pain, in sooth I do.
Stung by some little angry thing,
Some serpent on a tiny wing,
A bee it was, for once I know,
I heard a rustic call it so.
Thus he spoke, and she the while
Heard him with s soothing smile,
Then said, my infant, if so much
Thou feel the little wild bee's touch,
How must the heart, ah, Cupid, be,
The hapless heart that's stung by thee.