Oh! sovereign of the willing soul (John Wall Callcott)
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CPDL #16932: Sibelius 5
- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (added 2008-05-17). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 92 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Oh! sovereign of the willing soul
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella (originally). Piano accompaniment added by William Horsley (1774-1858).
Published: c1786
Description: A four part glee, the first composed by Callcott at the age of 19
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Original text and translations
English text
Second stanza of The Progress Of Poesy: a Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
[Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake,
And give to rapture all thy trembling strings.
From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take:
The laughing flowers, that round them blow,
Drink life and fragrance as they flow.
Now the rich stream of music winds along
Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong,
Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign:
Now rolling down the steep amain,
Headlong, impetuous, see it pour:
The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar.]
Oh! Sovereign of the willing soul,
Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs,
Enchanting shell! the sullen Cares
And frantic Passions hear thy soft control.
On Thracia's hills the Lord of War,
Has curb'd the fury of his car,
And dropp'd his thirsty lance at thy command.
Perching on the sceptred hand
Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feathered king
With ruffled plumes and flagging wing:
Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie
The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye.
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