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And then for comfort many an old love-crost

And doleful ditty would she gently sing,

Writ by sad poets of a lover lost,

Now sounding sweeter for her sorrowing:

Echo, sweet Echo, watching up on high,

Say hast thou seen to-day my love go by,

Or where thou sittest by thy mossy spring?

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Or say ye nymphs, that from the crystal rills,