I take no pleasure in the sun's bright...

I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams,
Nor in the crystal river's purling streams;
But in a dark and silent shady grove,
I sigh out woes of my neglected love.
Come, cruel fair, and charm me, ere I go
To Death's embraces in the shades below.
For tho' condemn'd and fetter'd here I lie,
'Till I your sentence have, I cannot die.
One look from those dear eyes, and then adieu
To all your cruelties and beauties too.

by Chamberlaine , ?

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by Henry Purcell (1658/9-1695) , "I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams", Z. 388, published 1681.

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