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shunwick -> RE: What music are you listening to now? (12/9/2016 8:34:01 PM)
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Have a good weekend everyone...
Fairport Convention - To Althea From Prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-FY6pAqRvI
Music and some subtle changes to the words by Dave Swarbrick
To Althea, from Prison
By Richard Lovelace 1617 - 1657
When Love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my Gates,
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the Grates;
When I lie tangled in her hair,
And fettered to her eye,
Birds that wanton in the Air,
Know no such Liberty.
When flowing Cups run swiftly round
With no allaying Thames,
Our careless heads with Roses bound,
Our hearts with Loyal Flames;
When thirsty grief in Wine we steep,
When Healths and draughts go free,
Fishes that tipple in the Deep
Know no such Liberty.
Stone Walls do not a Prison make,
Nor Iron bars a Cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an Hermitage.
If I have freedom in my Love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such Liberty.
Best wishes,
Steve
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