Shall I compare thee

SHALL I COMPARE THEE

Niels Lindberg

Her er et virkelig, virkelig smukt arrangement af Shakespeares Sonnet No. 18. Det er svenskeren Niels Lindberg, der har lavet arrangementet, og jeg tror aldrig, jeg bliver træt af at høre det. Det har en flygtighed i sig, synes jeg, en flygtighed, der minder om vinden - og kærligheden vel sagtens. Herunder har I teksten at følge med i.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.