Each god agreed at Clara's birth (James Oswald)

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• (Posted 2023-08-14)  CPDL #74874: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-08-14).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 834 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Figured bass realised editorially.

General Information

Title: Each god agreed at Clara's birth
Composer: James Oswald
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Strings

First published: c1760 (n/d)
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Original text and translations

English text

Each god agreed at Clara's birth
To bless the natal hour;
Pallas gave wit, gay Momus mirth,
Cupid himself in dow'r.
Venus bedeck'd her face in smiles,
Apollo lent his lyre;
"Music", quoth he, "each care beguiles:
Guard her ye tuneful choir".

Diana next, with modest grace,
Inspires her shape and air;
But Fortune left the happy place,
Nor would endow the fair.
They next agreed to form her mind,
And gave her heav'nly truth;
Hebe, bright maid, be thou as kind,
And grant eternal youth.