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When Laura Smiles (Eva Toller)
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- Editor: Eva Toller (submitted 2002-01-25). Score information: Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: When Laura Smiles
Composer: Philip Rosseter
Arranger: Eva Toller
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: TTTBBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
When Laura smiles, her sight revives both night and day,
The earth and heav'n views with delight her wanton play
And her speech with everflowing music doth repair
The cruel wounds of sorrow and untam'd despair.
The spirits that remaine in floating air
Affect for pastime to untwine her tressed hair
And the birds think sweete Aurora morning's Queene
shine her bright sphere when Laura shows her looks divine.
Diana's eye's are not adorned with greater power
Than Laura's, when she lifts awhile for sport to loure.
But when she her eyes encloseth, blindness doth appeare
The chiefest grace of beauty sweetly sealed there.
