In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be, The roof despair to bar all cheerful light from me, The walls of marble black that moistened still shall weep, My music hellish jarring sounds to banish friendly sleep: Thus wedded to my woes, and bedded [in]1 my tomb [O let me dying live till death doth come]2. My dainties grief shall be, and tears my poisoned wine, My sighs the air through which my panting heart shall pine, My robes my mind shall suit exceeding blackest night, My study shall be tragic thoughts sad fancy to delight, Pale ghosts and frightful shades shall my acquaintance be: O thus, my hapless joy, I haste to thee.
Funeral Tears for the death of the Right Honourable the Earl of Devonshire
by Giovanni Coprario, né John Cooper (c1570 - 1626)
?. In darkness let me dwell  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, pages 53-54.
1 Dowland: "to"
2 Dowland: "O, let me living die, till death do come"
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