Lyrics What is our life? - Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, Орландо Гиббонс

What is our life? - Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, Орландо Гиббонс
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song What is our life? , by - Monteverdi ChoirSong from the album Monteverdi & His Contemporaries: Madrigals, in the genre Мировая классика
Release date: 16.05.2011
Record label: Musical Concepts
Song language: English

What is our life?

What is our life?
a play of passion:
Our mirth?
the music of division
Our mothers' wombs the tyring-houses be
Where we are drest for this short comedy:
Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is
That sits and marks whoe’er doth act amiss:
Our graves, that hide us from the searching sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is done:
Thus march we playing to our latest rest
Only we die in earnest, — that’s no jest

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