Continuing the combination of Shakespeare and positivity, I'm posting from "Two Gentlemen of Verona" today. Franz Schubert set a German version of this to music, and here is Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing it live :)
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From Two Gentlemen of
Verona, Act 4, Scene 2
By
William Shakespeare
Who is
Silvia? what is she,
That all
our swains commend her?
Holy,
fair and wise is she;
The
heaven such grace did lend her,
That she
might admired be.
Is she
kind as she is fair?
For
beauty lives with kindness.
Love
doth to her eyes repair,
To help
him of his blindness,
And,
being help'd, inhabits there.
Then to
Silvia let us sing,
That
Silvia is excelling;
She
excels each mortal thing
Upon the
dull earth dwelling:
To her
let us garlands bring.
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