The courtly bard (John Goss)

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• (Posted 2022-01-31)  CPDL #67816:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-01-31).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 231 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The courtly bard
Composer: John Goss
Lyricist: John Cunningham
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1878 The Orpheus no.22
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Original text and translations

English text

The courtly bard, in verse sublime,
May praise the toasted belle;
A country maid (in careless rhyme)
I sing—my Kitty Fell!

When larks forsake the flowery plain,
And love's sweet numbers swell,
My pipe shall join their morning strain,
In praise of Kitty Fell.

The pale-faced pedant burns his books;
The sage forsakes his cell:
The soldier smooths his martial looks,
And sighs for Kitty Fell.

Were mine, ye great! your envied lot,
In gilded courts to dwell;
I'd leave them for a lonely cot
With Love and Kitty Fell.