Unless with my Amanda blest (Stephen Storace)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-08-11). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 192 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Unless with my Amanda blest
Composer: Stephen Storace
Lyricist: James Thomson
Number of voices: 2vv Voicings: SS or TT
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: c.1782 (n/d) Eight canzonets
Description: Accompaniment for piano or harp prescribed by the composer.
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Original text and translations
English text
Unless with my Amanda blest,
In vain I twine the woodbine bower;
Unless to deck her sweeter breast,
In vain I rear the breathing flower.
Awaken'd by the genial year,
In vain the birds around me sing;
In vain the freshening fields appear;
Without my love there is no Spring.