Unthrifty loveliness (Michael Gray)
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- Editor: Michael Gray (submitted 2016-12-24). Score information: Letter (landscape), 9 pages, 288 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Four notes were added to the end for this edition (2016).
General Information
Title: Unthrifty loveliness
Composer: Michael Gray
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
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Description: This is part of an on-going collection of music for SAB, "Book of Sonnets."
External websites: http://www.graymichael.com
Original text and translations
English text
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What acceptable audit canst thou leave?
Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,
Which, used, lives th' executor to be.