Come Again (Dowland)
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Come Again, sweet love doth now invite. is a song for soloist and lute or for small choir (typically SATB) by John Dowland.
The song is in typical bitter-sweet Dowland style and the first verse reads
- Come again, sweet love doth now invite.
- Thy graces that refrain, to do me due delight.
- To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die,
- with thee again in sweetest sympathy.
It was published in his "First Booke of Songes or Ayres" (1613).
Recent performers include Sting with lutenist Edin Karamazov. [1]
See http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Come_again_sweet_love_doth_now_invite_(John_Dowland)