Sometimes a happy rustic swain (John Sale): Difference between revisions

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(Posted 2022-05-14) CPDL #69197:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-05-14). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 175 kB Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Sometimes a happy rustic swain
Composer: John Sale
Lyricist: Metastasio (trans. Charles Burney)^{create page}
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SSB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1800 (n/d)
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Original text and translations

English text

Sometimes a happy rustic swain,
In cottage born, of humble stem,
Acquires with little toil and pain,
Thro' fortune's smiles, a diadem.

While he that's blasted by her frown,
To dire mischance is sure decreed;
And tho' entitled to a crown,
A field may till, a flock may feed.

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+Sometimes a happy rustic swain,
+In cottage born, of humble stem,
+Acquires with little toil and pain,
+Thro' fortune's smiles, a diadem.
+While he that's blasted by her frown,
+To dire mischance is sure decreed;
+And tho' entitled to a crown,
+A field may till, a flock may feed.}}
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