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The Poetry of George Wither

Edited by Frank Sidgwick

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Epigram 5.

Old Orpheus knew a good wife's worth so well
That when his died he followed her to hell,
And for her loss at the Elysian grove
He did not only ghosts to pity move,
But the sad poet breath'd his sighs so deep,
'Tis said, the devils could not choose but weep.