Two Cupids (Arthur Wellesley Batson)

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• (Posted 2023-09-20)  CPDL #75546:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-20).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 759 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Two Cupids
Composer: Arthur Wellesley Batson
Lyricist: George Croly
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1893 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

There was once a gentle time,
When the world was in its prime,
And every day was holiday,
And every month was lovely May;
Cupid then, had but to go,
With his purple wings and bow,
And in blossomed vale and grove,
Every shepherd knelt to love.
Then a rosy dimpled cheek,
And a blue eye fond and meek,
And a ringlet-wreathen brow,
Like Hyacinths on bed of snow,
And a low voice silver sweet,
From a lip without deceit,
Only those the hearts could move,
Of the simple swains to love.
But that time is gone and past,
Can the summer always last?
And the swains are wiser grown,
And the heart is turned to stone;
And the maiden’s rose may wither,
Cupid’s fled, no man knows, whither?
But another Cupid’s come,
With a brow of care and gloom,
Fixed upon the earthly mould,
Thinking of the sullen gold,
In his hand a bow no more,
At his back the household store,
The Bridal gold, must buy,
Useless now, the smile or sigh,
But he wears the pinion still,
Flying at the sight of ill.
O for the old true love time,
When the world was in its prime.