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
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Text Authorship:
- by Peter Anthony Motteux (1663 - 1718), no title, written 1703
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Blest day, arise in State,
And roll along the Spheres,
As famous and as
As glorious, fam’d and great
As the
moves the Morn,
From whose Return
Bright Phoebus dates his Years!
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From this happy Day we date, Great Anna's Birth, and Britain's Joys. Planets move and rule by Fate, The Queen by Wisdom and by Choice. The Sun imparts us Light and Heat: Her Reign yields Blessings greater 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 can boast but Leaves and Flow’rs Her Vertue still new Blessings pours, And round the Year we taste the ripen'd Fruit.
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