The Stolen kiss (William Hayes)

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• (Posted 2021-03-22)  CPDL #63642: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-03-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 93 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Stolen kiss
Composer: William Hayes
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Number of voices: 1v   Voicings: S or T
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1735
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Original text and translations

English text

Belinda, see from yonder flow'rs
The bee flies loaded to its cell.
Can you perceive what it devours;
Are they impaired in show or smell?

So, though I robbed you of a kiss
Sweeter than their ambrosial dew,
Why are you angry at my bliss?
Has it at all impov'rished you?

'Tis by this cunning I contrive,
In spite of your unkind reserve,
To keep my famish'd love alive,
Which you inhumanely would starve.