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So light is love

Language: English

So light is love, in matchless beauty shining,
When she revisits Cypris' hallowed bowers
Two feeble doves, harnessed in silken twining,
Can draw her chariot midst the Paphian flowers.
Lightness to Love, how ill it fitteth!
So heavy on my heart she sitteth.


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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Date added to the website: 2004-12-08.

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