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Artist: Loreena McKennitt
Canonical path: /loreena-mckennitt/prospero-s-speech
Related lyric paths: 6
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Prospero's Speech
Read Prospero's Speech lyrics by Loreena McKennitt on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Prospero's Speech
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And now my charms are all o'erthrown
And what strength I have's mine own
Which is most faint, now t'is true
I must here be released by you
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails
Which was to please
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant
And my ending is despair
Unless I be relieved by prayer
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults
As you from your crimes would pardon'd be
Let your indulgence set me free
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Loreena McKennitt performs "Prospero's Speech", and this lyric page sits inside the Loreena McKennitt catalog on LyroVerse.
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