Dash the wine cup away! (Edward Roberts)

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• (Posted 2024-06-14)  CPDL #80948:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-06-14).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 377 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Dash the wine cup away!
Composer: Edward Roberts
Lyricist: William Henry Burleigh
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1868 F. J. Huntington & Co.
Description: TEMPERANCE SONG

Original text and translations

English text

Dash the wine cup away! though its sparkle shall be
More bright than the gems that lie hid in the sea;
For a syren unseen, by thine eye, lurketh there,
Who would lure thee thro’ pleasure to woe and despair.
Then dash, dash the wine cup, ’tis death to delay,
Be a man, while you can, dash the wine cup away.

Wherever the cup of confusion is poured,
In the cellar of Want or at Luxury’s board,
From palace and cottage, from hovel and hall,
A wail goeth up to the Father of all!
Then dash, dash the wine cup, ’tis death to delay,
Be a man, while you can, dash the wine cup away.

Then rally! then rally! ye wise and ye good,
Come up in your strength and roll back the dark flood,
Ere your treasures are wrecked in its desolate path,
As it sweeps o’er your homes in its terror and wrath.
Then dash, dash the wine cup, ’tis death to delay,
Be a man, while you can, dash the wine cup away.

Ere the woe shall be ours which smote Ephraim of old,
And our glory shall be like a tale that is told,
And the wolf, coming back to our cities shall howl,
To the mournfuller cry of the bittern and owl.
Then dash, dash the wine cup, ’tis death to delay,
Be a man, while you can, dash the wine cup away.