Quick! We have but a second (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2017-01-14)  CPDL #42643:       

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-01-14).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #400, with minor corrections.

• CPDL #06774: 

Editor: John D. Smith (submitted 2004-02-20).   Score information: A4, 3 pages   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Scorch required to view and print the score. Scores listed alphabetically by composer.

• CPDL #00400:    Finale 1998 

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-02-03).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Finale file is zipped. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

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Title: Quick! We have but a second
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Thomas Moore

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Quick! We have but a second, Fill round the cup while you may For time, the churl, hath beckoned And we must away, away! Grasp the pleasure that’s flying For oh, not Orpheus’ strain Could keep sweet hours from dying Or charm them to life again.

Then, quick! We have but a second, Fill round the cup while you may For time, the churl, hath beckoned And we must away, away! See the glass, how it flushes Like some young hebe’s lip And half meets thine, and blushes That thou shouldst delay to sip.

Shame, oh, shame unto thee If e’er thou seest that day When a cup or a lip shall woo thee And turn untouched away. Then quick! We have but a second, Fill round the cup while you may For time, the churl, hath beckoned And we must away, away!