8.3: Rose-Cheeked Laura — Read

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by Thomas Campion (1567-1620)

1 Rose-cheek’d Laura, come,

2 Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty’s

3 Silent music, either other

4 Sweetly gracing.

5 Lovely forms do flow

6 From concent divinely framed;

7 Heav’n is music, and thy beauty’s

8 Birth is heavenly.

9 These dull notes we sing

10 Discords need for helps to grace them;

11 Only beauty purely loving

12 Knows no discord,

13 But still moves delight,

14 Like clear springs renew’d by flowing,

15 Ever perfect, ever in them-

16 Selves eternal.

Notes

6 concent: harmony

Rose-Cheeked Laura. Authored by: Thomas Campion. Located at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A17877.0001.001/1:4.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext. License: Public Domain: No Known Copyright

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