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Difference between revisions of "In darkness let me dwell"
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===Background=== | |||
The text Dowland used is the first stanza of a poem that can be found in "Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age"<ref name="Elizabethan"/>, although he altered the last line and changed "in" to "to" in the before-last line. The poem is noted: "From ''John Coprario's Funeral Tears for the Death of the Right Honorable the Earl of Devonshire'', 1606 | The text Dowland used is the first stanza of a poem that can be found in "Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age"<ref name="Elizabethan"/>, although he altered the last line and changed "in" to "to" in the before-last line. The poem is noted: "From ''John Coprario's Funeral Tears for the Death of the Right Honorable the Earl of Devonshire'', 1606 | ||
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In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be, | In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be, | ||
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Pale ghosts and frightful shades shall my acquaintance be: | Pale ghosts and frightful shades shall my acquaintance be: | ||
O thus, my hapless joy, I haste to thee.<ref name="Elizabethan"/></poem> | O thus, my hapless joy, I haste to thee.<ref name="Elizabethan"/></poem> | ||
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==Manuscripts and sheet music== | ==Manuscripts and sheet music== | ||