Unthrifty loveliness - Gray, Michael

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"This is part of an on-going collection of music for SAB, "Book of Sonnets.""

◈ Genre → Partsongs ♬ Besetzung → SAB ¶ Sprache → Englisch

Stimmen 3

Instrumente Piano

Seiten 9

CPDL Nr. 42398

Bearbeiter Michael Gray

Veröffentlicht 2016-12-24

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Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free: Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse The bounteous largess given thee to give? Profitless usurer, why dost thou use So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live? For having traffic with thy self alone, Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive: Then how when nature calls thee to be gone, What acceptable audit canst thou leave? Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee, Which, used, lives th' executor to be.