Weep You No More Sad Fountains - John Dowland (1603)

Weep You No More Sad Fountains by John Dowland
Third Book of Songs 1603

Performed by Amarylli
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Hannah Grove - soprano
Elizabeth Pallett - lute
Recorded at St Leonard's Chapel, Malvern

Weep you no more, sad fountains;
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven’s sun doth gently waste.
But my sun’s heavenly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
A rest that peace begets.
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at even he sets?
Rest you then, rest, sad eyes,
Melt not in weeping
While she lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping.

Video - JDA Media
Audio - Samuel Rodgers

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