Seven Gnomic Verses

Song Cycle by Peter Tahourdin (1928 - 2009)

1. Great things are done when men and mountains meet  [sung text not yet checked]

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.

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2. These souls of men are bought and sold  [sung text not yet checked]

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[There]1 souls of men are bought and sold,
And milk-fed Infancy for gold;
And Youth to slaughter-houses led,
And Beauty, for a bit of bread.

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3. Terror in the house does roar  [sung text not yet checked]

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Terror in the house does roar;
But Pity stands before the door.

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4. The look of love alarms, because it's filled with fire  [sung text not yet checked]

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The look of love alarms,
Because it's fill'd with fire;
But the look of soft deceit
Shall win the lover's hire.

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5. Self deceit and idleness, these are Beauty's sweetest dress
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Self deceit and idleness,
These are Beauty's sweetest dress.

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6. Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven  [sung text not yet checked]

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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,
I oft have wish'd for Hell, for ease from Heaven.

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7. Do what you will this life's a fiction  [sung text not yet checked]

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Do what you will this life's a fiction,
And is made up of contradiction.

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