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THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: SONG FROM THE ITALIAN by JOHN DRYDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: BY A DISMAL CYPRESS LYING
Last Line: BUT CRUEL SHE I LOV'D IN VAIN.
Subject(s): DEATH; LOVE; NYMPHS; SINGING & SINGERS; DEAD, THE; SONGS;

BY a dismal Cypress lying,
@3Damon@1 cry'd, all pale and dying,
Kind is Death that ends my pain,
But cruel She I lov'd in vain.
The Mossy Fountains
Murmure my trouble,
And hollow Mountains
My groans redouble:
Every Nymph mourns me,
Thus while I languish;
She only scorns me,
Who caus'd my anguish.
No Love returning me, all my hope denying;
By a dismal Cypress lying,
Like a @3Swan@1, so sung he dying:
Kind is Death that ends my pain,
But cruel She I lov'd in vain.



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