Song Cycle by Stephen Chatman (1950-)

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by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from Sonnets, no. 8

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Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)
FRE French (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot)
FIN Finnish (Erkki Pullinen)

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,
Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tunèd sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing.
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: "Thou single wilt prove none."

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