Winter's Near

from Compass EP by Your Forgotten Love

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Like winter has my absence been from you, the pleasure of the fleeting year. What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen! And old December's bareness every where!

If there is song, it's with so dull a cheer that leaves look pale, dreading winter's near.

And yet this time removed was summer's time, the teeming autumn, with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime, like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease...

And yet this abundant issue seem'd to me but hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit; for summer and his pleasures wait on me, and you away, the birds are mute, or if there is song, it's with so dull a cheer, dreading winter's near.

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from Compass EP, released March 16, 2006
Lyrics adapted by Jackie Roche from William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 97". Music by Matt LeFevers. Copyright 2006.

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Your Forgotten Love Phoenix, Arizona

Your Forgotten Love was born out of a fusion of literature and music. In 2003, a college Shakespeare assignment led vocalist Jackie Roche to recruit instrumental jack-of-all-trades Matt LeFevers for a musical adaptation of the bard's 97th sonnet. The resulting song, a sweeping piano ballad dubbed "Winter's Near", went far beyond anyone's expectations, and ignited Your Forgotten Love. ... more

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