Gently touch the warbling lyre (James Brooks)

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(Posted 2023-08-14) CPDL #74864:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-08-14). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 226 kB Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

General Information

Title: Gently touch the warbling lyre
Composer: James Brooks
Lyricist: Arthur Bradley^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1796 (n/d)
Description: A glee created by Brooks by marrying Bradley's words, familiar from other glee settings, with the evergreen tune "Cease your funning", which had made an early appearance in the Beggar's Opera.

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Original text and translations

{{Text|English| Gently touch the warbling lyre, Chloe seems inclined to rest.

Fill her soul with fond desire, Softest notes will soothe her breast. Pleasing dreams assist in love, Let them all propitious prove: Gently touch the warbling lyre, Chloe seems inclined to rest.

On the mossy bank she lies, Nature's verdant velvet bed; Beauteous flowers meet her eyes, Forming pillows for her head. Zephyrs waft their odours round, And indulging whispers sound. Gently touch the warbling lyre, Chloe seems inclined to rest.}