Friday, February 26, 2016

The Grey-Eyed Morn Smiles


Listen to:

The Grey-Eyed Morn Smiles (:55)

by William Shakespeare 

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave that is her womb,
And from her womb children of divers kind
We sucking on her natural bosom find,
Many for many virtues excellent,
None but for some and yet all different.


FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo and Juliet, Act II, scene iii, lines 1-14

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