Cynthia (John Bailey Surgey)

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• (Posted 2023-12-12)  CPDL #78147:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 457 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Cynthia
Composer: John Bailey Surgey
Lyricist: John Wolcot
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1873 Lamborn Cock & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

From her, alas! whose smile was love,
I wander to some lonely cell:
My sighs too weak the Maid to move,
I bid the flatterer Hope farewell.

Be all her siren arts forgot,
That fill’d my bosom with alarms:
Ah! let her Crime, a little spot,
Be lost amidst her blaze of Charms.

As on I wander slow, my sighs
At every step for Cynthia mourn:
My anxious heart within me dies,
And sinking, whispers, “Oh, return!”

Deluded heart, thy folly know,
Nor fondly nurse the fatal flame;
By absence thou shalt lose thy woe,
And only flutter at her name.

Peter Pindar (pseudonym of John Wolcot)