To Cynthia (John Danby)

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(Posted 2022-01-17) CPDL #67628:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-17). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 339 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: To Cynthia
Composer: John Danby
Lyricist: A Lady of Huntingdon^{create page}
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: AATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1785
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Original text and translations

English text

Sister of Phœbus, gentle queen,
Of aspect mild and ray serene,
Whose friendly beams by night appear,
The lonely traveller to cheer;
Attractive power, whose mighty sway
The oceans' swelling waves obey,
And mounting upward seem to raise
A liquid altar to the praise.
The withered hags at midnight hour
Invoke to their infernal bower;
But I to no such horrid rite
Sweet queen implore thy sacred light;
Nor seek, while all but lovers sleep,
To rob the miser's treasured heap.
Thy kindly beams alone impart,
To find the nymph who stole my heart,
And guide me from thy silver throne
To steal her heart or find my own.