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The Black Notes said to the White,
“He will come to-night
With his moody heart, and play
As yesterday.”
“He will come to-night
With his moody heart, and play
As yesterday.”
The White Notes answered, “Yes.
When in keen distress
He returns to you and me
For sympathy.
When in keen distress
He returns to you and me
For sympathy.
We know, as the woodland doves,
Of the girl he loves
In his moody heart, and share
Her breast and hair.”
Of the girl he loves
In his moody heart, and share
Her breast and hair.”
The Black Notes said to the White,
“When he comes to-night
We will tell him how she crept
To us and wept.”
“When he comes to-night
We will tell him how she crept
To us and wept.”
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