Ay me, that life should yet remain (Henry Lichfield)

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• (Posted 2024-09-15)  CPDL #81974: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-09-15).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 80 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Aye me, that life should yet remain
Composer: Henry Lichfield
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a capella

First published: 1613
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English text

Ay me, that life should yet remain,
When heart and living spirits are bereft me.
Ay me, than thus to live in pain,
It better were no life at all were left me.
Then die betimes, that when my heart return
That may die too, and so I cease to mourn.