Shakespeare's Songs/Hark, Hark! The Lark

by William Shakespeare

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From Cymbeline.

HARK, HARK! THE LARK

Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phœbus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies;
And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes;
With every thing that pretty is,
My lady sweet, arise:
Arise, arise!