Take, O take those lips away (Robert Lucas Pearsall)

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Editor: Christoph Lahme (submitted 2010-08-22).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany

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Title: Take, O take those lips away
Composer: Robert Lucas Pearsall

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSTTB
(SATTB)
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1830

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Take, O take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
But my kisses bring again;
Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, sealed in vain.