As on a flow'ry bank I lay (Elizabeth Turner)
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- (Posted 2023-10-04) CPDL #76027:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-10-04). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 336 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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General Information
Title: As on a flow'ry bank I lay
Composer: Elizabeth Turner
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo, violin
First published: c.1750 (n/d)
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Original text and translations
English text
As on a flow'ry bank I lay,
Pleas'd with nature's various pride,
A roving Cupid flew that way,
And left his arrow in my side.
Too soon I felt the cruel smart,
Too late the pow'rful god I knew;
And, from the anguish of my heart,
My fate alas! I found too true.
I sighing sobb'd, and begging swore
All due obedience to his will.
"Fond youth", cried he, "lament no more;
Tho' deep I wound, I never kill.
Rise, to the blooming Fanny run;
Get there thy death or happiness.
Tho' in thy heart my arrows burn,
'Tis she must kill or give thee ease".