# Come Away, Death

- Music: Roger Quilter (died 1953)
- Words: William Shakespeare (died 1616)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/29199584

## The words

Come away, come away, death, And in sad  
cypress let me be laid; Fly away,  
fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel  
maid.  
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,  
O prepare it; My part of death no one so true  
Did share it.  
Not a flower, not a flower sweet,  
On my black coffin let there be strown;  
Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corse,  
where my bones shall be thrown.  
A thousand thousand sighs to save,  
Lay me, O where Sad true lover never find my  
grave, To weep there, to weep, to weep there.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).