Round thy pillow (Robert Cooke)

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• (Posted 2023-08-14)  CPDL #74845: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-08-14).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 166 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: Round thy pillow
Composer: Robert Cooke
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicings: SAB or TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: Unknown

First published: 1805
Description: Cooke suggested performance at the original pitch for SSB or transposed down a seventh for TTB

Original text and translations

English text

Round thy pillow, cherubs smiling
Soothe thy wearied limbs to rest;
Sweetest dreams each sense beguiling,
Fill with bliss thy gentle breast.

Wake to innocence and pleasure,
Virtue's meed without alloy;
'Til, beyond all eartly measure,
Heav'n shall fill thy cup with joy.