Weary with toil (Michael Gray)
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- (Posted 2024-07-02) CPDL #81163:
- Editor: Michael Gray (submitted 2024-07-02). Score information: Letter (landscape), 8 pages, 228 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
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General Information
Title: Weary with toil
Composer: Michael Gray
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 2024
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Original text and translations
English text
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired,
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired;
For then my thoughts (from far where I abide)
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see;
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which like a jewel (hung in ghastly night)
Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
Lo thus by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.
William Shakespeare (Sonnet XXVII)