8.3: Rose-Cheeked Laura
by Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
1 Rose-cheek’d Laura, come,
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Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty’s
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Silent music, either other
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Sweetly gracing.
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Lovely forms do flow
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From concent divinely framed;
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Heav’n is music, and thy beauty’s
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Birth is heavenly.
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These dull notes we sing
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Discords need for helps to grace them;
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Only beauty purely loving
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Knows no discord,
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But still moves delight,
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Like clear springs renew’d by flowing,
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Ever perfect, ever in them-
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Selves eternal.
Notes
6 concent: harmony
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- Rose-Cheeked Laura. Authored by : Thomas Campion. Located at : http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A17877.0001.001/1:4.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext . License : Public Domain: No Known Copyright