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The Beauty Of Your Eyes

from Songs Of Sweet Fire by Diane Nalini

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THE BEAUTY OF YOUR EYES lyrics by Shakespeare, music by Diane Nalini

Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were filled with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces.'

So should my papers, yellowed with their age,
Be scorned, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be termed a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You would live twice, in it, and in my rhyme.

-- Sonnet XVII

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from Songs Of Sweet Fire, released June 30, 2005
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Music by Diane Nalini, lyrics by Shakespeare

Diane Nalini - vocals
Dany Roy - soprano saxophone
Mike Rud - electric guitar
Tim Nolan - double bass
Camil Bélisle - drums

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Diane Nalini

Diane Nalini sings and composes in four languages. She's sung at festivals around the globe, and given gala performances for President Bill Clinton and Sir Paul McCartney. She was nominated for the Grand Prix de Jazz at the 2002 Montreal International Jazz Festival and won 2nd prize in the UK’s Young Jazz Vocalist of the Year awards for 2001. Her original songs have been featured in several films. ... more

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