What bright joy can this exceed? (Samuel Webbe)

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• (Posted 2021-02-19)  CPDL #63043: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-02-19).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 194 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: What bright joy can this exceed?
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Anacreon (trans. Francis Fawkes)^{create page}

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1785
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English text

What bright joy can this exceed,
This of roving o'er the mead?
Where the hand of Flora pours
Such a store of sweetest flow'rs;
Where the zephyr's balmy gale
Wantons in the lovely vale.
Oh! How pleasing to recline
Underneath the spreading vine,
In the close concealment laid
With a love-inspiring maid,
Fair and sweet, and young and gay,
Sporting all the live-long day.