Sweetest love - Moffatt, Stuart

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◈ Genre → Chansons

♯ Key E minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → S

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range D2 – E6

¶ Language → English

Measures 62

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 4

CPDL # 69841

Editor Stuart Moffatt

Posted 2022-06-29

License CPDL License

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D2 – F#4

¶Lyrics / Text

Sweetest love, I do not go For in weariness of thee Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best to use my self in jest thus by feigned death to die. Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today, He hath no desire nor sense, Nor half so short a way: Then fear not me, But believe that I shall make Speedier journeys, since I take More wings and spurs than he. O how feeble is man's power That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall! But come bad chance, And we join to it our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us to advance. When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind, But sigh'st my soul away, When thou weep'st, unkindly kind, My life's blood doth decay. It cannot be That thou lov'st me, as thou say'st, If in thine my life thou waste, Thou art the best of me. Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill, Destiny may take thy part, And may thy tears fulfill; But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep; They who one another keep Alive, ne'er parted be.