What's in the brain? - Gray, Michael

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"Part of an on-going collection, "Book of Sonnets.""

◈ Genre / Form → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SSAATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 10

CPDL # 42221

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2016-12-09

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

¶Lyrics / Text

What's in the brain that ink may character, Which hath not figur'd to thee my true spirit? What's new to speak, what new to register, That may express my love or thy dear merit? Nothing sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine, I must, each day say o'er the very same; Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine, Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name. So that eternal love in love's fresh case Weighs not the dust and injury of age, Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place, But makes antiquity for aye his page, Finding the first conceit of love there bred Where time and outward form would show it dead.

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