Fly not yet (Thomas Richard Gonzalvez Jozé)

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• (Posted 2023-11-03)  CPDL #76929:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-03).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 709 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Fly not yet
Composer: Thomas Richard Gonzalvez Jozé
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1903 Novello and Co.
Description: Irish Air: Planxty Kelly

Original text and translations

English text

Fly not yet, ’tis just the hour,
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night,
And maids who love the moon.
’Twas but to bless these hours of shade
That beauty and the moon were made;
’Tis then their soft attractions glowing
Set the tides and goblets flowing.
Oh! stay,— Oh! stay,—
Joy so seldom weaves a chain
Like this to-night, that oh, ’tis pain
To break its links so soon.

Fly not yet, the fount that play’d
In times of old through Ammon’s shade,
Though icy cold by day it ran,
Yet still, like souls of mirth, began
To burn when night was near.
And thus, should woman’s heart and looks
At noon be cold as winter brooks,
Nor kindle till the night, returning,
Brings their genial hour for burning.
Oh! stay,— Oh! stay,—
When did morning ever break,
And find such beaming eyes awake
As those that sparkle here?