Virtues (John Manuel Pacheco)
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- (Posted 2019-11-20) CPDL #55996:
- Editor: John Manuel Pacheco (submitted 2019-11-20). Score information: Letter, 20 pages Copyright: CC BY NC ND
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General Information
Title: Virtues
Composer: John Manuel Pacheco
Lyricists: William Ernest Henley, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Motet
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2019
Description: I. Fortitude
II. Temperance
III. Love
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Original text and translations
English text
I. Fortitude
Original text and translations may be found at Invictus (Charles West).
II. Temperance
To touch the cup with eager lips and taste, not drain it;
To woo and tempt and court a bliss and not attain it;
To fondle and caress a joy, yet hold it lightly,
Lest it become a necessity and cling too tightly;
To watch the sunset in the west without regretting;
To hail its advent in the east, the night forgetting;
To smother care in happiness and grief in laughter;
To hold the present close, not questioning hereafter;
To have enough to share to know the joy of giving;
To touch the cup with eager lips and taste, not drain it;
To smother care in happiness and grief in laughter;
To present close not questioning hereafter
To thrill with all the sweets of life – is living.
III. Love
Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good-fame,
Plans, credit and the Muse,
Nothing refuse.
Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
It is a brave master;
Let it have scope:
Follow it utterly,
Hope beyond hope:
High and more high
It dives into noon,
With wing unspent,
Untold intent:
But it is a god,
Knows its own path
And the outlets of the sky.
To love and be beloved
Men and gods have not outlearned it;
And, how oft soe'er they've turned it,
The sense of the world is short,
long and various the report.
To love and be beloved
tis not to be improved.
Give all to love.