O you, whom vanity's light bark conveys (John Stafford Smith)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-03-22). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 116 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: O you, whom vanity's light bark conveys
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Lyricist: Alexander Pope
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: AATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1781
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Original text and translations
English text
O You, whom vanity's light bark conveys
On Fame's mad voyage, by the wind of praise;
With what a shifting gale your course you ply,
For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!
Who pants for glory finds but short repose,
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.