Sweet Day

Lyrics

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright The bridal of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall tonight For thou must die Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye: Thy root is ever in its grave And thou must die Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses A box where sweets compacted lie; My music shows ye have your closes And all must die Only a sweet and virtuous soul Like seasoned timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal Then chiefly lives