Pub. 1805. Cooke was organist of Westminster Abbey and St Martin's in the Fields. A well-respected composer of glees, he won several prizes for his compositions.

Lyrics: Anon

This bubbling stream not uninstructive flows,
Nor idly loiters to its destin'd main:
Each flower it feeds that on its margin grows,
And bids those blush whose days are spent in vain.
Not void of moral, though unheeded, glides
Time's current, stealing on with silent haste:
For lo! each falling sand his folly chides,
Who lets one precious moment run to waste.