Sin of self-love - Gray, Michael

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

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SAB ¶ Language → English

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 14

CPDL # 46298

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2017-09-11

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¶Lyrics / Text

Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye And all my soul, and all my every part; And for this sin there is no remedy, It is so grounded inward in my heart. Methinks no face so gracious is as mine, No shape so true, no truth of such account; And for myself mine own worth do define, As I all other in all worths surmount. But when my glass shows me myself indeed Beated and chopp'd with tanned antiquity, Mine own self-love quite contrary I read; Self so self-loving were iniquity. 'Tis thee,--Myself,--that for myself I praise, Painting my age with beauty of thy days.

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