by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
What is a day, what is a yeere?
Language: English
What is a day, what is a yeere? Of vaine delight and pleasure? Like to a dreame it endlesse dies, And from vs like a vapour flies : And this is all the fruit that we finde, Which glorie in worldly treasure. He that will hope for true delight, With vertue must be graced ; Sweete follie yeelds a bitter tast, Which euer will appeare at last : But if we still in vertue delight, Our soules are in heauen placed.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [author's text not yet checked 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 Philip Rosseter (1567?8 - 1623), "What is a day, what is a yeere?", published 1601, from the collection A Booke of Ayres = A Book of Airs, no. 23. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-11-16
Line count: 12
Word count: 78