Nine Sets of Four Songs Each, Set I , opus 82

by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949)

1. Let not thy tombstone  [sung text not yet checked]

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Let not thy tombstone e'er be laid by me:
Nor let my hearse be wept upon by thee:
But let that instant when thou diest be known
The minute of mine expiration.
One knell be rung for both; and let one grave
To hold us two an endless honour have.

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Confirmed with Robert Herrick, The Hesperides & Noble Numbers, edited by Alfred Pollard with a pref. by A.C. Swinburne, London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1898, page 101.


2. Burne or drowne me  [sung text not yet checked]

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Burn, or drown me, choose ye whether,
So I may but die together ;
Thus to slay me by degrees
Is the height of cruelties.
What needs twenty stabs, when one
Strikes me dead as any stone ?
O show mercy then, and be
Kind at once to murder me.

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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol II, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 67.


3. The Bed‑man  [sung text not yet checked]

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THou hast made many Houses for the Dead;
When my Lot calls me to be buried,
For Love or Pittie, prethee let there be
I'th'Church-yard, made, one Tenement for me.

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Confirmed with Robert Herrick, Hesperides, or, The works both humane & divine of Robert Herrick, Esq., pages 326-327.


4. 'Tis said, as Cupid danc'd  [sung text not yet checked]

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'Tis said, as Cupid danc'd among
The gods he down the nectar flung,
Which on the white rose being shed
Made it for ever after red.

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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol II, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 49.