Prudentia victrix (Thomas Gregory Smith)

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• (Posted 2023-12-08)  CPDL #78029:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 551 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Prudentia victrix
Composer: Thomas Gregory Smith
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1870 W. Henman
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Original text and translations

English text

Through the meadow as I strayed
One enchanting summer day,
I beheld a blooming maid
As she gaily went her way.

Birds were carolling above,
Bees were humming merrily,
And the hurtling shaft of love
Pierced my heart so cruelly.

To the maiden thus I spake,
As I nearer drew to her:
“Fairest one, for thy dear sake
I to brave a host would dare;

Nought my passion can restrain,
My fond heart throbs but for thee,
If to heed my suit thou’lt deign,
Evermore thy slave I’ll be.”

But the maiden thus replied,
As she slyly gazed on me:
“If you linger by my side
Awkward it for you may be;

By yon river, deep and blue,
My true lover you may see–
He’s a bigger man than you!”
So I left her hastily!