Undeck'd by sculpture's trophies (John Stafford Smith)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-10-04). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 106 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Undeck'd by sculpture's trophies
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Lyricist: Anon
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATT
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1781
Description: "Epitaph in Weston chuch yard near Bath, upon an innkeeper's daughter aged ten years". The text is probably apocryphal, being recorded in tea-table miscellanies with various names, occupations, and ages. The parish has no record of this memorial.
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Original text and translations
English text
Undeck'd by sculpture's trophies gay,
This stone no flatt'ring tale can tell
Of her who claims this simple lay,
Of her who fills this narrow cell;
Save that in beauty's early bloom
The path of innocence she trod,
Save that her childhood found a tomb,
Save that her spirit rests with God.