Thomas Campion

Rose-Cheeked Laura

Rose-cheek’d Laura, come,
    Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty’s
    Silent music, either other
          Sweetly gracing.
 
      Lovely forms do flow
    From concent divinely framed;
    Heav’n is music, and thy beauty’s
          Birth is heavenly.
 
      These dull notes we sing
  Discords need for helps to grace them;
  Only beauty purely loving
        Knows no discord,
 
  But still moves delight,
  Like clear springs renew’d by flowing,
  Ever perfect, ever in them–
        Selves eternal.
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