Court Odes: Glory! Where art thou, goddess, where?
 Selected item (#2110) = Glory! Where art thou, goddess, where?
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incipit (first line(s), normalized): Glory! Where art thou, goddess, where?
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the item's genre (general): ode
the item's genre (specific): New Year’s Day
the institution/place or purpose 
for which the work was first destined:		 English court
the work's year (or focal date, if known): 1751
author of the text: Colley Cibber
composer of the music: William Boyce
Data-note concerning authorship | dating (EMM, Fri Apr 1 11:00:32 2022):
There is further evidence that the ode was performed in H. Diack Johnstone’s dissertation entitled, The Life and Work of Maurice Greene (1696-1755) where they state, ‘There were no New Year’s odes in 1738, 1744 and 1752, the Birthday odes for 1730 and 1752 are the same, and the ’Dialogue between Fame and Virtue’ performed on 1 January 1751 -- just about the time Greene’s health seems to have collapsed -- was probably by Boyce.’ (Johnstone, 1967).
Number of texts stored: 1  
  • Selected text (below): #256 / Source: The Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 21 (January 1751) / version: London Magazine: Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer…’ 1751, Volume 20. (Via Google Books).
    special title: ‘ODE for the New-Year. In a dialogue between FAME and VIRTUE.’
 Selected text (#256) / Source: The Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 21 (January 1751)  
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source for this text
(short title, or library & shelfmark):		 The Gentleman’s Magazine
location in the source?
(i.e. which vol., pp. or fols):		 vol. 21 (January 1751)
type of source: newspaper/periodical
the source online (if available): open link
modern edition of this text:
special title (if any): ODE for the New-Year. In a dialogue between FAME and VIRTUE.
version (if more than one exists): London Magazine: Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer…’ 1751, Volume 20. (Via Google Books).
about this transcription: Original transcription by Liam Hickey, May 2020. Edited by Estelle Murphy, April 2022.
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ODE for the NEW-YEAR.
In a Dialogue between FAME and VIRTUE.
FAME, by Mr Beard. VIRTUE, by Mr Savage.

Fame. Glory! where art thou, goddess where?
Direct me Virtue, to her sight;
’Tis I, ’tis Fame, prefer the pray’r,
Lest I mistake her shade for light.
Virtue. Well hast thou pray’d, illustrious Fame!
Nor shall delusion wrong thine eye;
Enthron’d, behold, behold her there;
Assert and found her to the sky.
Fame. O glorious view! th’ immortal ray
Around the British CAESAR beams;
Distinguish’d as the rising day
That o’er the golden ocean gleams.
Virtue. Not brighter shines the solar ball,
Or moves with more exalted mien.
Fame. Refulgent, visible to all,
Yet to itself alone unseen.
Virtue. ’Tis not the wasted world,
Or dire destruction hurl’d
By arms injuriously victorious:
Chorus. But to protect, to save,
Avows the great and brave:
Thence! thence alone is empire glorious!
Fame. These are thy views, Augustus, this
The just ambition we adore:
Thus guarded, liberty and peace
With wreaths of glory crown thy pow’r.
Virtue.      Happy subjects,
                    Envy’d objects
     Of the bless’d with kinder sky:
                    All their pleasure,
                    Wanting CAESAR,
     Wants the bliss of our hinds enjoy.
Fame. From CAESAR’s patriot sway
The heart-reviving ray
Of liberty serenes our sphere;
Hence! hence arise our vows,
That glory and repose
May, long possess’d, preserve him here!
Chorus. That glory and repose
May, long possess’d, preserve him here.
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