To love I wake the silver string (Samuel Webbe)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-09-29). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 139 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: To love I wake the silver string
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SATB.SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1853 Novello's Glee Club no.70
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Original text and translations
English text
To love I wake the silver string,
And of his soft dominion sing.
A wreath of flowers adorn his brow,
The sweetest, fairest flowers that blow.
All mortals own his mighty sway,
And him the gods above obey.
Anacreon Ode LXVIII
- Translation by Francis Fawkes