Nine Sets of Four Songs Each, Set II , opus 83

by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949)

1. Borne I was to meet with age  [sung text not yet checked]

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Born I was to meet with age,
And to walk life's pilgrimage.
Much I know of time is spent,
Tell I can't what's resident.
Howsoever, cares, adieu !
I'll have nought to say to you :
But I'll spend my coming hours
Drinking wine and crown'd with flowers.

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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick. Vol I, Alfred Pollard, ed., London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 240.


2. Hope well and have well  [sung text not yet checked]

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What though the heaven be lowering now,
And look with a contracted brow ?
We shall discover, by-and-by,
A repurgation of the sky ;
And when those clouds away are driven,
Then will appear a cheerful heaven.

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  • by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Hope well and have well : or, fair after foul weather"

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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol I, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 236.


3. When I consider, dearest  [sung text not yet checked]

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When I consider, dearest, thou dost stay
But here a-while, to languish and decay,
Like to these garden-glories, which here be
The flowery-sweet resemblances of thee ;
With grief of heart, methinks, I thus do cry :
Would thou hadst ne'er been born, or might'st not die.

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  • by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Upon his kinswoman, Mistress Bridget Herrick"

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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol I, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 255.


4. I begin to waine in sight  [sung text not yet checked]

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I begin to wane in sight;
Shortly I shall bid good-night:
Then no gazing more about,
When the tapers once are out.

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