That ere in choir the robins ring,

Pipes its own name like one afraid.

“It seems pain-prompted to repeat

The story of some ancient ill,

But Phœbe! Phœbe! sadly sweet,

Is all it says, and then is still.

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Phœbe! it calls and calls again;

And Ovid, could he but have heard,

Had hung a legendary pain