243. Matin Song by Thomas Heywood
b"Heywood read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\n http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n \\n ---------------------------------------------\\n \\n Matin Song\\n by Thomas Heywood(1575? \\u2013 1650)\\n \\n Pack, clouds, away! and welcome, day!\\n With night we banish sorrow.\\n Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft\\n To give my Love good-morrow!\\n Wings from the wind to please her mind,\\n Notes from the lark I'll borrow:\\n Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing!\\n To give my Love good-morrow!\\n To give my Love good-morrow\\n Notes from them all I'll borrow.\\n \\n Wake from thy nest, robin red-breast!\\n Sing, birds, in every furrow!\\n And from each bill let music shrill\\n Give my fair Love good-morrow!\\n Blackbird and thrush in every bush,\\n Stare, linnet, and cocksparrow,\\n You pretty elves, among yourselves\\n Sing my fair Love good-morrow!\\n To give my Love good-morrow!\\n Sing, birds, in every furrow!\\n \\n \\n \\n \\n For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n \\n To be notified of new postings, and to receive some extra, short text about each poetry reading, join the mailing list."