Text: Thomas Moore
Music: Traditional Irish Air
Arrangement: Charles V. Stanford
Edited: John Rutter
Published: Hinshaw Music

Soprano: Julie Bailey
Mezzo: Janet Malkiewicz
Alto: Jennifer Kujawski
Tenor: Roland Brenny
Bass: Allen Fisher

Quick! We have but a second,
Fill round the cup while you may;
For Time, the churl, hath beckon’d,
And we must away, away!
Grasp the pleasure that’s flying,
For Oh! Not Orpheus’ strain
Could keep sweet hours from dying,
Or charm them to life again.

Refrain:
Quick! We have but a second,
Fill round the cup while you may;
For Time, the churl, hath beckon’d,
And we must away, away!

See the glass how it flushes,
Like some young Hebe’s lip,
And half meets thine, and blushes
That thou should delay to sip
Shame, oh, shame unto thee
If e’er thou see that day
When a cup or lip shall woo thee,
And turn untouch’d away.

Refrain