James Oswald
 (1710 - 1769)

Thy fatal shafts unerring move I
 (Soprano/Tenor,Violin,Continuo)
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149445 : Oswald : Thy fatal shafts unerring move I : sheet music
Catalogued as Choral - Secular (Songs and Concert Airs) (Temple of Apollo)

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Publ. 1758. Oswald wrote two settings of the text from Roderick Random.
Lyrics: Tobias Smollett

Thy fatal shafts unerring move;
I bow before thine altar, love;
I feel thy soft resistless flame
Glide swift thro' all my vital frame.
For while I gaze, my bosom glows;
My blood in tides impetuous flows.
Hope, fear and joy alternate roll,
And floods of transports whelm my soul.

My falt'ring tongue attempts, in vain,
In soothing murmurs to complain;
My tongue some secret magic ties,
My murmurs sink in broken sighs!
Condemn'd to nurse eternal care,
And ever drop the silent tear;
Unheard I mourn, unknown I sigh,
Unfriended live, unpitied die.