"O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice", Z. 406 - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North

O solitude

My sweetest choice

O solitude

O solitude my sweetest choice

Places devoted to the night

Remote from tumult and from noise

How ye my restless thoughts delight

O solitude

O solitude my sweetest sweetest choice

O heav'ns what content is mine

To see these trees which have appear'd

From the nativity of time

And which all ages have rever'd

To look today as fresh and green

To look today as fresh and green

As when their beauties first were seen

O how agreeable a sight

These hanging mountains do appear

Which th' unhappy would invite

To finish all their sorrows here

When their hard

When their hard fate makes them endure

Such woes

Such woes as only death can cure

O how I solitude adore

O o o how I solitude adore

That element of noblest wit

Where I have learnt

Where I have learnt Apollo's lore

Without the pains the pains to study it

For thy sake I in love am grown

With what thy fancy does thy fancy does pursue

But when I think upon my own

I hate it

I hate it for that reason too

Because it needs must hinder me

From seeing

From seeing and from serving thee

O solitude o how I solitude adore