Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons
What is our life? a play of passion:
Our mirth? the music of division
Our mothers’ wombs the tyring-houses be
Where we are drest for this short comedy:
Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is
That sits and marks whoe’er doth act amiss:
Our graves, that hide us from the searching sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is done:
Thus march we playing to our latest rest
Only we die in earnest, — that’s no jest
What is our life? was written by Orlando Gibbons & Sir Walter Raleigh.