Poems and Songs by Thomas Flatman. The Fourth Edition with many Additions and Amendments |
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Weeping at Parting.
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Weeping at Parting.
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Go, gentle Oriana, go,Thou seest the Gods will have it so;
Alas! Alas! 'tis much in vain
Of their ill usage to complain,
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Lessens our courage, not our grief:
Dear Oriana, wipe thine Eye,
The Time may come, that thou, and I
Shall meet again, long, long to prove
What Vigour absence adds to love,
Smile Oriana then, and let me see,
That look again, which stole my liberty.
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But say that Oriana die,And that sad moment may be nigh;
The Gods that for a year can sever,
If it please them can part us ever;
They that refresh, can make us weep,
And into Death can lengthen sleep.
Kind Oriana should I hear
The thing I so extremely fear,
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After a while, I too, am dead.
Weep Oriana, weep, for who does know,
Whether we e'r shall meet again below.
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