Discord dire sister (Samuel Webbe)
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- Editor: Frank de Ruyter (submitted 2017-08-12). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 61 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The dynamics are not original, and just an suggestion.
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2014-05-30). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 64 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Alto line set in the original octave below treble clef.
General Information
Title: Discord dire sister
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Alexander Pope
Number of voices: 4vv Voicings: ATTB or TTTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: A glee on an extract from Alexander Pope's verse translation of Book IV of Homer's "Iliad"
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Original text and translations
English text
Discord, dire sister of the slaught'ring power,
Small at her birth, but rising ev'ry hour,
While scarce the skies her horrid head can bound,
She stalks on earth, and shakes the world around.
But lovely peace, in angel's form
Descending, quells the rising storm.
Soft ease and sweet content shall reign
And discord never rise again.