This cold, flinty heart (Michael Arne)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-09-25).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 158 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: This cold, flinty heart
Composer: Michael Arne
Lyricist: David Garrick
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SSAB
Genre: SecularGlee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1796
Description: A song from Arne's opera Cymon, recast as a glee by James Brooks.

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Original text and translations

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This cold, flinty heart
It is you who have warmed;
You wakened my passions,
My senses have charmed.
In vain, against merit
And Cymon I strove:
What's life without passion,
Sweet passion of love?

The spring should be warm,
The young season be gay;
Her birds and her flow'rets
Make blithesome sweet may.
Love blesses the cottage
And sings through the grove:
What's life without passion,
Sweet passion of love?