For the Earl of Essex
It was a time when silly bees could speak,
And in that time I was a silly bee,
Who fed on time until my heart `gan break,
Yet never found the time would favour me.
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![]() Джон Доуленд (1563–1626)The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603): №18. `It was a time when silly bees` Скачать ноты ![]() For the Earl of Essex
It was a time when silly bees could speak, And in that time I was a silly bee, Who fed on time until my heart `gan break, Yet never found the time would favour me. Of...Читать дальше
For the Earl of Essex
It was a time when silly bees could speak, And in that time I was a silly bee, Who fed on time until my heart `gan break, Yet never found the time would favour me. Of all the swarm I only did not thrive, Yet brought I wax and honey to the hive. Then thus I buzzed when time no sap would give: Why should this blessed time to me be dry, Sith by this time the lazy drone doth live, The wasp, the worm, the gnat, the butterfly? Mated with grief I kneeled on my knees, And thus complained unto the king of bees: My liege, gods grant thy time may never end, And yet vouchsafe to hear my plaint of time, Which fruitless flies have found to have a friend, And I cast down when atomies do climb. The king replied but thus: Peace, peevish bee, Thou`rt bound to serve the time, the time not thee. Х Свернуть Выводить записи: по популярности | по рейтингу исполнителя | по алфавиту |
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