Circle the bowl (Samuel Wesley)
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- (Posted 2013-01-26) CPDL #28144:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2013-01-26). Score information: A4, 14 pages, 170 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Circle the bowl
Composer: Samuel Wesley
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Wesley noted that he completed this glee on 7th September, 1782.
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Original text and translations
English text
Circle the bowl with freshest roses,
And strew the board with meats divine,
Cull for my Chloe sweetest posies;
Chloe with me this day will dine.
Happy alone is he whom pleasure
teaches to laugh the hours away.
Tasteless the miser's hoarded treasure,
If no enjoyment crown the day.
While Prussia's warlike monarch blusters,
Some wealthy kingdom to obtain,
Cupid for me his forces musters,
To conquer Chloe's proud disdain.
And if both heroes prove victorious
Pleased I shall Fredric's laurel see,
Nor think my own campaign less glorious:
Empire for him and love for me.