Time & Brevity
Injurious hours, whilst any joy doth bless me
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Time & Brevity
Injurious hours, whilst any joy doth bless me,
With speedy wings you fly and so release me;
But if some sorrow do oppress my heart,
You creep as if you never meant to part.
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Codex Note
From Henry Lichfild's First Set of Madrigals, 1613.
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