by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Let us now take time and play
Language: English
Let us now take time and play, Love, and live here while we may ; Drink rich wine, and make good cheer, While we have our being here ; For once dead and laid i' th' grave, No return from thence we have.
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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol II, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 46.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To Sappho (I)" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Let me now take time and play", op. 89 (Nine Sets of Four Songs Each, Set VIII) no. 1 (1930) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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