Like as the waves - Gray, Michael

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"Part of an ongoing collection "Book of Sonnets" for SAB, piano"

◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key E- minor

♬ Voicing → SAB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range E-1 – G-5

¶ Language → English

Measures 44

Texture Homophonic

Parts 5

Instruments Piano

Pages 6

CPDL # 41504

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2016-10-21

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

D-4 – G-5

Alto

A-3 – B-4

Baritone

E-3 – C-4

Piano

E-1 – E-4

¶Lyrics / Text

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light Crawls to maturity, wherewith being-crowned Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. ''William Shakespeare (Sonnet LX)''