When for the world's repose (Lord Mornington)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2011-02-13). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 50 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: When for the world's repose
Composer: Lord Mornington
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: From Warren's nineteenth "Collection of Catches, Canons and Glees".
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Original text and translations
English text
When for the world's repose my fairest sleeps,
See, Cupid hovers round her couch and weeps.
Well may'st thou weep, proud boy, thy power dies;
Thou hast no dart when Chloe has no eyes.