My care is like my shadow...
It follows me at all times and flies when I pursue it.
I freeze and yet am always burned
since from myself again I turn.
I love and yet am forced to hate.
I seem stark mute; inside I prate.
My care is like my shadow laid bare beneath the sun.
It follows me at all times and flies when I pursue it.
I love and yet am forced to hate.
I seem stark mute; inside I prate.
Some gentle love doth ease itself
Into my heart and mind.
For I am soft and made of snow
Love, be more cruel or so be kind.
Словами этого стиха Елизаветы I, королевы Англии начинается трек к историческому фильму BBC The Virgin Queen. Композитор Martin Phipps, исполнитель Mediaeval Baebes.