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Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-04-26). Score information: A4, 1 page, 15 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Title: When Laura smiles
Composer: Thomas Campion

Number of voices: 1v Voicing: S

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

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Original text and translations may be found at When Laura smiles.

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 ==Original text and translations==
+{{LinkText|When Laura smiles}}
-{{Text|English}}
-<poem>
-When Laura smiles her sight revives both night and day.
-The earth and heaven view with delight her wanton play.
-And her speech with everflowing music doth repair
-The cruel wounds of sorrow and untam'd despair.
-The dainty sprites that still remain in fleeting air
-Affect for pastime to untwine her tressed hair.
-And the birds think sweet Aurora, morning's queen, doth shine
-From her bright sphere when Laura shews her looks divine.
-Diana's eyes are not adorn'd with greater power
-Than Laura's when she lists awhile for sport to lower.
-But when she her eyes encloseth, blindness doth appear
-The chiefest grace of beauty, sweetly seated there.
-Love hath no fire but what he steals from her bright eyes.
-Time hath no power, but that which in her pleasure lies.
-For she, with her divine beauties, all the world subdues,
-And fills with heav'nly spirits my humble muse.
-</poem>
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