Quick! We Have But a Second (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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Editor: John D. Smith (added 2004-02-20). Score information: A4, 3 pages Copyright: Personal

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Editor: Rafael Ornes (added 1999-02-03). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 68 kbytes Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Finale file is zipped. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

Title: Quick! We Have But a Second
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Thomas Moore

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsongs

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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English text

Quick! We have but a second,
Fill round the cup while you may
For time, the churl, hath beckoned
And we must away, away!

Grasp the pleasure that’s flying
For oh, not Orpheus’ strain
Could keep sweet hours from dying
Or charm them to life again.

Then, quick! We have but a second,
Fill round the cup while you may
For time, the churl, hath beckoned
And we must away, away!

See the glass, how it flushes
Like some young hebe’s lip
And half meets thine, and blushes
That thou shouldst delay to sip.

Shame, oh, shame unto thee
If e’er thou seest that day
When a cup or a lip shall woo thee
And turn untouched away.

Then quick! We have but a second,
Fill round the cup while you may
For time, the churl, hath beckoned
And we must away, away!