Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Overture / Sonnet 32, artist - Woods of Birnam. Album song Searching for William, in the genre ПопDate of issue: 19.01.2017
Record label: Royal Tree
Song language: English
Overture / Sonnet 32 |
| If thou survive my well-contented day, |
| When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover |
| And shalt by fortune once more re-survey |
| These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover, |
| Compare them with the bett’ring of the time, |
| And though they be outstripped by every pen, |
| Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme, |
| Exceeded by the height of happier men. |
| O! |
| then vouchsafe me but this loving thought: |
| 'Had my friend’s Muse grown with this growing age, |
| A dearer birth than this his love had brought, |
| To march in ranks of better equipage: |
| But since he died and poets better prove, |
| Theirs for their style I’ll read, his for his love'. |