When Sappho tuned the raptured strain (John Danby)

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• (Posted 2022-01-17)  CPDL #67612: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-17).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 214 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: When Sappho tuned the raptured strain
Composer: John Danby
Lyricist: Tobias Smollett
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1785
Description: This glee gained a Catch Club prize medal in 1781.

Original text and translations

English text

hen Sappho tun'd the raptur'd strain,
The list'ning wretch forgot his pain;
With art divine the lyre she strung;
Like thee she play'd, like thee she sung.

For when she struck the quiv'ring wire,
The eager breast was all on fire;
But when she tun'd the vocal lay,
The captive soul was charm'd away.