4 Engelske Sange

Song Cycle by Bo Holten (b. 1948)

1. Il dolce riso

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2. No

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3. The lily  [sung text not yet checked]

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The modest rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threatening horn, 
While the lily white shall in love delight, 
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

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4. Sonnet 75  [sung text not yet checked]

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One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
    But came the waves and washed it away: 
    Again I wrote it with a second hand, 
    But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. 
Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay
    A mortal thing so to immortalize, 
    For I myself shall like to this decay, 
    And eek my name be wiped out likewise. 
Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise
    To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: 
    My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, 
    And in the heavens write your glorious name. 
Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue,
    Out love shall live, and later life renew.

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Total word count: 146