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"Stray where ye lift, some happyer master try:
"Yet once, my flock, was none so bless'd as I.
"Yet once, my flock, was none so bless'd as I.
Awake, my pipe; in every note express 132
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress.
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress.
"My pipe, whose soothing sound could passion move,
"And first taught Stella's virgin heart to love,
"Shall silent hang upon this blasted oak,
"Whence owls their dirges sing, and ravens croak: 136
"Nor lark, nor linnet, shall by day delight,
"Nor nightingale suspend my moan by night.
"The night and day shall undistinguish'd be,
"Alike to Stella, and alike to me. 140
"And first taught Stella's virgin heart to love,
"Shall silent hang upon this blasted oak,
"Whence owls their dirges sing, and ravens croak: 136
"Nor lark, nor linnet, shall by day delight,
"Nor nightingale suspend my moan by night.
"The night and day shall undistinguish'd be,
"Alike to Stella, and alike to me. 140
Awake, my pipe; in every note express
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress.
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress.
Thus, sorrowing, did the gentle shepherd sing,
And urge the valley with his wail to ring. 144
And urge the valley with his wail to ring. 144
And now that sheep hook for my song I crave.
ARGOL.
Not this, but one more costly, shalt thou have,
Not this, but one more costly, shalt thou have,
Or
