Yet awhile, sweet sleep deceive me (Michael Arne)

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• (Posted 2021-09-25)  CPDL #65883: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-09-25).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 165 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

General Information

Title: Yet awhile, sweet sleep deceive me
Composer: Michael Arne
Lyricist: David Garrick
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SSAB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1796
Description: A song from Arne's opera Cymon, recast as a glee by James Brooks

Original text and translations

English text

Yet awhile, sweet sleep, deceive me.
Fold me in thy downy arms;
Let not care awake to grieve me,
Lull it with thy potent charms.

I, a turtle doomed to stray,
Quitting young the parent's nest,
Find each bird a bird of prey;
Sorrow knows not where to rest.