Not mine own fears - Gray, Michael

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"Part of a collection in progress, "Book of Sonnets.""

◈ Genre → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SAB ¶ Language → English

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 7

CPDL # 46390

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2017-09-19

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

¶Lyrics / Text

Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confin'd doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd, And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time, My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rime, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.