In vain would fortune (Samuel Webbe)

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Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2014-06-08).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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Title: In vain would fortune
Composer: Samuel Webbe
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Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSS

Genre: SecularCanon

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

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In vain would fortune with tempestuous blast,
The present pile of happiness destroy.
Lock'd in the sacred treasure of the past,
what I have once possess'd, I still enjoy.