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HIS LACHRIMAE OR MIRTH, TURNED TO MOURNING, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me no more
Last Line: Of those that sit and weep.
Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement


1. Call me no more,
As heretofore,
The musick of a Feast;
Since now (alas)
The mirth, that was
In me, is dead or ceast.

2. Before I went
To banishment
Into the loathed West;
I co'd rehearse
A Lyrick verse,
And speak it with the best.

But time (Ai me)
Has laid, I see
My Organ fast asleep;
And turn'd my voice
Into the noise
Of those that sit and weep.





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