CANTATA.
Written in German for Mademoiselle Paradis, by her blind friend M. Pfeffel, of Colmar, and set to music by her musicmaster, M. Leopold Kozeluch, of Vienna, 11th November, 1784.
IMITATED BY DR. BURNEY.
“The new born insect sporting in the sun,
Is the true semblance of my infant state,
When ev’ry prize for which life’s race is run
Was hidden from me by malignant fate.
“Instant destruction quench’d each visual ray,
No mother’s tears, no objects were reveal’d!
Extinguish’d was the glorious lamp of day,