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SONG by JOHN DOWLAND

First Line: SORROW, SORROW, STAY
Last Line: AND ARISE I NEVER SHALL.
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; JOY; DELIGHT;

SORROW, sorrow, stay!
Lend true repentant tears
To a woeful wretched wight
Hence, hence, despair,
With thy tormenting fears:
O do not my poor heart affright!
Pity, pity,
Help now or never!
Mark me not to endless pain:
Alas I am condemmed ever!
No hope, no help, there doth remain:
But down, down, down, I fall
And arise I never shall.



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