Pretty twinkling starry eyes! (Frank Valentine Van der Stucken)

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• (Posted 2023-12-14)  CPDL #78207:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 414 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Pretty twinkling starry eyes!
Composer: Frank Valentine Van der Stucken
Lyricist: Nicholas Breton
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 G. Schirmer
Description: Three Choruses for Mixed Choir, Op. 37, No. 3

(Gavotte)

Original text and translations

English text

Pretty twinkling starry eyes!
How did Nature first devise
Such a sparkling in your sight
As to give Love such delight!
As to make him, like a fly,
Play with looks until he die?

Sure ye were not made at first
For such mischief to be curst,
As to kill Affection’s care
That doth only truth declare.
Where Worth’s wonders never wither,
Love and Beauty live together!

Blessed eyes! then give your blessing
That, in Passion’s best expressing,
Love (that only lives to grace ye)
May not suffer Pride deface ye;
But, in gentle thought’s directions,
Show the praise of your perfections!