But be contented - Gray, Michael

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"This is part of an ongoing project called "Book of Sonnets.""

◈ Genre / Form → Partsongs

♯ Key G minor

♬ Voicing → SAB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range C2 – C7

¶ Language → English

Measures 63

Texture Homophonic

Parts 7

Instruments SAB, Piano, Piano, Instrument 5, Instrument 6

Pages 7

CPDL # 51833

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2018-11-12

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

C4 – F5

Alto

G3 – C5

Baritone

G2 – D4

Piano

E-2 – G4

Instrument 5

D4 – F5

Instrument 6

C2 – F4

¶Lyrics / Text

But be contented when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away, My life hath in this line some interest, Which for memorial still with thee shall stay. When thou reviewest this, thou dost renew The very part was consecrate to thee: The earth can have but earth, which is his due; My spirit is thine, the better part of me: So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life, The prey of worms, my body being dead; The coward conquest of a wretch's knife, Too base of thee to be remembered. The worth of that is that which it contains, And that is this, and this with thee remains.

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