by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Though you are young and I am old
Language: English
Though you are young and I am old, Though your veins hot and my blood cold, Though youth is moist and age is dry, Yet embers live when flames do die. The tender graft is eas'ly broke, But who shall shake the sturdy oak? You are more fresh and fair than I, Yet stubs do live when flower do die. Thou, that thy youth dost vainly boast, Know, buds are soonest nipped with frost. Think that thy fortune still doth cry: Thou fool, to-morrow thou must die.
Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), "Though you are young and I am old", published 1601, from the collection A Booke of Ayres = A Book of Airs, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
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Line count: 12
Word count: 87