Thomas Campion. Eternitie sings alone. "Bring Away This Sacred Tree."

From
The Description of a Maske
on S. Stephens night. (1614)
by Thomas Campion.

Eternitie singes alone.

Bring away this Sacred Tree,
The Tree of Grace and Bountie,
              Set it in Bel-Annas eye,
For she, she, only she
              Can all Knotted spels vnty.
Pull'd from the Stocke, let her blest Hands conuay
              To any suppliant Hand, a bough,
              And let that Hand aduance it now
Against a Charme, that Charme shall fade away.

Source:
Campion, Thomas. Campion's Works. Percival Vivian, Ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. 153.

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