Inspire us, Genius of the Day With an auspicious Beam! Joyn, all ye Muses! Sing and Play! Thou world, attend! Due Honors pay! Thy Guardian is our Theme.
Inspire us, Genius of the Day
Cantata by John Eccles (1668 - 1735)
The songs and symphonys perform'd before Her Majesty at her Palace of St. Jame's on her birth day. 1703
1. A Song for 3 Voices Sung on the Queens Birth Day  [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by Peter Anthony Motteux (1663 - 1718), no title, written 1703
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2. Blest day, arise in State  [sung text checked 1 time]
Blest day, arise in State,
And roll along the Spheres,
[As famous and as] 1 great
As [the] 2 Morn,
From whose Return
Bright Phoebus dates his Years!
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1 Eccles: "As glorious, fam’d and"2 Eccles: "moves the"
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3. From this happy Day we date  [sung text checked 1 time]
From this happy Day we date, [Great Anna's]1 Birth, and Britain's Joys. Planets [move and rule]2 by Fate, The Queen by Wisdom and by Choice. The Sun imparts us Light and Heat: Her Reign yields [Blessings greater]3 yet; For Light and Heat no Noble Soul can please, Without what she maintains, our Freedom, and our Ease. Yet both alike in this they live, That neither Share the rest they give. By Seasons, and by fleeting Hours, The Sun's warm Comforts we compute, [The Spring] 4 can boast but Leaves and Flow’rs Her Vertue still new Blessings pours, [And round the Year we taste the ripen'd Fruit.]5
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- by Peter Anthony Motteux (1663 - 1718), no title, written 1703
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Confirmed with ‘inspire us genius of the day’: rewriting the regent in the Birthday Ode for Queen Anne, 1703 Estelle Murphy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, Page 12
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