Josep Maria Guix
Sweet love
Duration: 3'
Choir: mixed choir
Sweet love
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A four part composition for Mixed Choir (SATB) based on the Sonnet LVI by William Shakespeare.
SONNET LVI
Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but today by feeding is allayed,
Tomorrow sharp'ned in his former might.
So love, be thou, although today thou fill
Thy hungry eyes, ev'n till they wink with fullness,
Tomorrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.
Let this sad int'rim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two contracted new
Come daily to the banks, that when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
As call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.
William Shakespeare