Cupid once upon a bed of roses - Roberts, John Varley

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⌛ Period → Romantic ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key E- major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → ATTB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range F2 – D-5

¶ Language → English

Measures 56

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 6

CPDL # 69638

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2022-06-09

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Alto

B-3 – D-5

Tenor I

D3 – E-4

Bass

F2 – C4

Piano (practice only)

F2 – E-4

¶Lyrics / Text

Cupid once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head, Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee, The bee awaked, with anger wild, The bee awaked, and stung the child, Loud and piteous are his cries, To Venus quick, he runs, he flies, O mother, I am wounded through, I die with pain, in sooth I do. Stung by some little angry thing, Some serpent on a tiny wing, A bee it was, for once I know, I heard a rustic call it so. Thus he spoke, and she the while Heard him with s soothing smile, Then said, my infant, if so much Thou feel the little wild bee's touch, How must the heart, ah, Cupid, be, The hapless heart that's stung by thee.