Had I but the torrent's might (Robert Cooke)

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• (Posted 2023-08-14)  CPDL #74848: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-08-14).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 582 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: Had I but the torrent's might
Composer: Robert Cooke
Lyricist: Anonymous (Welsh) trans. Evan Evans^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: AATB
Genre: Sacred, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1778
Description: This glee gained a Catch Club Prize Medal in 1778.

Original text and translations

English text

Had I but the torrent's might,
With headlong rage and wild affright,
On Deira's squadrons hurl'd,
To rush and sweep them from the world.
To Mona's vales, in glittering row,
Twice ten hundred warriors go;
Flush'd with mirth and hope they burn,
But none from Mona's vales return
Save I, the meanest of them all,
Who live to sing and weep their fall.