Now, youths, with hot desire
See, see, that flameless fire,
Which erst your hearts so burned,
Quick into ashes turned.
Fa la!
The household-bird with the red stomacher.—Donne.
The lark, linnet and nightingale to sing some say are best;
From Richard Carlton’s Madrigals, 1601.
The love of change hath changed the world throughout,
From John Dowland’s Third and last Book of Songs and Airs, 1603.
The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall,
Where waters smoothest run, deep are the fords;
The dial stirs, yet none perceives it move;
The firmest faith is in the fewest words;
The turtles cannot sing, and yet they love;
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak;
They hear, and see, and sigh, and then they break!