Heywood read by Classic Poetry Aloud:

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Giving voice to the poetry of the past.

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Matin Song

by Thomas Heywood(1575? – 1650)

Pack, clouds, away! and welcome, day!

With night we banish sorrow.

Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft

To give my Love good-morrow!

Wings from the wind to please her mind,

Notes from the lark I'll borrow:

Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing!

To give my Love good-morrow!

To give my Love good-morrow

Notes from them all I'll borrow.

Wake from thy nest, robin red-breast!

Sing, birds, in every furrow!

And from each bill let music shrill

Give my fair Love good-morrow!

Blackbird and thrush in every bush,

Stare, linnet, and cocksparrow,

You pretty elves, among yourselves

Sing my fair Love good-morrow!

To give my Love good-morrow!

Sing, birds, in every furrow!

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