Smile, smile again, twice happy morn (Pelham Humfrey)

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(Posted 2022-10-21) CPDL #71221:

Editors: Mick Swithinbank and Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2022-10-21). Score information: A4, 9 pages, 267 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Some words in the text are unclear. The text guessed at appears between square brackets.

General Information

Title: Smile, smile again, twice happy morn
Composer: Pelham Humfrey
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
solos for S, A, T and B Genre: Secular, Ode

Language: English
Instruments: 4 unspecified instruments

First published: 1673
Description: an ode for the birthday of King Charles II

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Manuscript source on IMSLP

Original text and translations

English text

Soprano and chorus

Smile, smile again, twice happy morn,
A double crown thy temples shall adorn.
The best of kings twice to this nation borne.

Bass solo

Thou mighty sabbath of the year
Wherein we rest from all our grief and fear,
Let not heav'n's eye bedew thee with a tear,
Thou heir of time and favourite of chance.
In the [open fields] shall Apollo dance.

Alto solo

Let him dance while we sing
Joy and health to the King.
[Let him] leap while we play
To his capers all the day.
Let him shine
With a light so divine
As shall banish rebellious vapours.

Verse: alto tenor and bass

This day gave a birth
To our king and our mirth
And converted our sorrow to laughter
And of all that are past
'Tis the last and yet better yet are still to come after.

Tenor solo

See yet how ev'ry fragrant flow'r
Looks sweetly on this happy hour
And shaking off their early dew,
They all turn heliotrope to you,
The airy choir, although untaught
Speak joy in ev'ry loyal note,
The springs are so obedient grown,
Their murmurs they forget to own.
The proud [aspen] grows humble now
And tallest oaks do to your service bow.
The proudest trees grow humble now

And tallest oaks do to your service

... [interrupted by the accompaniment]

Bass solo (recitative)

Thrice happy morn, then smile again, salute the best of kings this morn. Do thou th'auspicious year begin and guard a thousand vows and blessings in that ev'ry year may multiply health, length of days and victory.

Verse

Smile, thus smile upon the king
And then he'll smile, he'll smile on thee again.
Thus our monarch from thee new vigour shall gain,
For ev'ry May he's beginning to reign.

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