Heart's music (Campion, set by R. Vaughan Williams) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Tune thy music to thy heart;
 Sing thy joy with thanks, and so thy sorrow.
 Though devotion needs not art,
 Sometime of the poor the rich may borrow.

 Strive not yet for curious ways;
 Concord pleaseth more the less 'tis strained.
 Zeal affects not outward praise,
 Only strives to show a love unfeigned.

 Love can wondrous things effect,
 Sweetest sacrifice all wrath appeasing.
 Love the Highest doth respect,
 Love alone to Him is ever pleasing.

Authorship

Thomas Campion (1567-1620)

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

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

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