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Description: | handwritten & ink, pen and ink, 5 sheets of yellowed paper with verses for tableaux representing Queen Juno (1), Spring (2), Summer (3), Zepher (4), Angel of the Night (5), The King of the Morn (6)m Autumn (7), 10 Winter, and Phoebus (11)., p.1. The Seasons
Tis said that once, Queen Juno, held her court
To which all discontented subjects should be brought
Who though their trade, their health and various reasons
Were always grumbling at the Seasons
Some wished, twas always Spring
Others that Winter would begin
Some that Summer never died
Others it was the Autumn tide
To prove tis wrong such things to say
"The Seasons" I've invented here today
As they've accepted my polite request
I'll introduce my honour'd guest
Tableaux 1st Queen Juno
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First came bright "Spring," so full of hope
Arousing nature from her winter sleep
Whilst hill and dale - and grassy slope
Bear Traces of her fairy feet
So full of life and promise, with joy the wild birds sing
'Tis natures glorious welcome, to receive returning spring
Tableaux 2nd - Spring
p.2. Next came Summer, with all her lovely train
Of earth's bright jewels, the beauteous flowers
Shedding, sweet perfume through the air again
Made still sweetrer, by refreshing showers
For these fair Nature's gifts we here attend
To receive bright Summer s a welcome friend
Tableaux 3rd Summer
p.3. Yet with all her beauty, so gloriously arrayed
We soon frow weary, of her dazzling light
But that she brings a gentle graceful maid
The fairy guardians of the Summer night
Fair balmy Zepher a blessing brings
Bourne lightly on her gauzy wings
Tableaux 4 Zepher ---
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But see "The Night" with wings of stormy gloom
O'ershadows all the earth and skies
likesome dark beauteous bird, whose plume
Is sparkling with a thousand dyes
Whilst mortals weary of the day
Seek sweet repose till morning light
Slumbering all their cares away
Then welcome, monarch of the night
Tableaux 5 - The Angel of the Night
p.4. The east nowglimerswith a silver grey
Recreated nature to adorn
The lark salutes the coming day
His songproclaims the rising morn
At the timid maid but scarcely peeps
beyond the deep curtain of the night
Then growing bold, she proudly leaps
In alll the glory of her dazzling light
Tableaux 6th The Rising of Morn
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Next came Autumn, still charming graceful fair
Painting the leaves a lovely golden hue
Her face expresses sadness, time and care
Yet welcome as the spring and summer too
A friend to all from peasant to the throne
That safely brings the harvest home
Tableaux7th Autumn
(p.5.) Now came stern Winter with a crown of snow
Waving his icy sceptre o'er the land
Nature obeys, and alll is soon laid low
Beneath the power of his mighty hand
Though seeming cruel, yet he is our friend
Destroying but enriching, and will send
At least ten fold for what he now destroys
A tyrant for a time, and yet creating joys
Then as a guest we need not fear
To welcome gloomy Winter here
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Queen Juno then her court addressed
You that are discontented maythis lesson learn
From what you've seen the truth must be confessed
All that is = must perish in its turn
Nature all wise, the easons so ordained
That each by contrast, shall enhance the rest
As one succeeds the other -- we have something gained
Then who shall say, which Season is the best
Be then contented ,, if happiness you'd find
Beneath the darkest cloud the sun is still behind
Making all bright, beneath a golden ray
And gloomy Winter's changed to Summer's day
Tableaux 11 = Phoebus =
5 sheets of yellowed paper with verses for tableaux representing Queen Juno (1), Spring (2), Summer (3), Zepher (4), Angel of the Night (5), The King of the Morn (6)m Autumn (7), 10 Winter, and Phoebus (11).
TWCMS.2013.1824.1 - sheet 1 of 5 sheets of yellowed paper with verses for tableaux representing Queen Juno (1), Spring (2), Summer (3), Zepher (4), Angel of the Night (5), The King of the Morn (6)m Autumn (7), 10 Winter, and Phoebus (11).
TWCMS.2013.1824.2 - sheet 2 of 5 sheets of yellowed paper with verses for tableaux representing Queen Juno (1), Spring (2), Summer (3), Zepher (4), Angel of the Night (5), The King of the Morn (6)m Autumn (7), 10 Winter, and Phoebus (11).
TWCMS.2013.1824.3 - sheet 3 of 5 sheets of yellowed paper with verses for tableaux representing Queen Juno (1), Spring (2), Summer (3), Zepher (4), Angel of the Night (5), The King of the Morn (6)m Autumn (7), 10 Winter, and Phoebus (11).
TWCMS.2013.1824.4- sheet 4 of 5 sheets of yellowed paper with verses for tableaux representing Queen Juno (1), Spring (2), Summer (3), Zepher (4), Angel of the Night (5), The King of the Morn (6)m Autumn (7), 10 Winter, and Phoebus (11).
TWCMS.2013.1824.5 - sheet 5 of 5 sheets of yellowed paper with verses for tableaux representing Queen Juno (1), Spring (2), Summer (3), Zepher (4), Angel of the Night (5), The King of the Morn (6)m Autumn (7), 10 Winter, and Phoebus (11). | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.miscellaneous.518385 | Go to resource |
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