LAURA
by: Thomas Campion (1567?-1619)
- OSE-CHEEK'D
Laura, come;
- Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's
- Silent music, either other
- Sweetly gracing.
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- Lovely forms do flow
- From concent divinely framèd:
- Heaven is music, and thy beauty's
- Birth is heavenly.
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- These dull notes we sing
- Discords need for helps to grace them;
- Only beauty purely loving
- Knows no discord;
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- But still moves delight,
- Like clear springs renew'd by flowing,
- Ever perfect, ever in them-
- selves eternal.
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