Not from the stars - Gray, Michael

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"From an on-going SAB Collection, "Book of Sonnets""

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SAB ¶ Language → English

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 12

CPDL # 42048

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2016-11-25

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

¶Lyrics / Text

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy; But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons’ quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell, Pointing to each his thunder, rain, and wind, Or say with princes if it shall go well By oft predict that I in heaven find. But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive, And, constant stars, in them I read such art As truth and beauty shall together thrive If from thyself to store thou wouldst convert: Or else of thee this I prognosticate, Thy end is truth’s and beauty’s doom and date.

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