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ORPHEUS TO WOODS by RICHARD LOVELACE

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First Line: HARK! O HARK! YOU GUILTY TREES
Last Line: AUGHT BUT COFFINS AND THEIR TOMBS.
Subject(s): MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL; ORPHEUS; TREES;
HARK! O hark! you guilty trees,
In whose gloomy galleries
Was the cruel'st murder done
That e'er yet eclips'd the sun.
Be then henceforth in your twigs
Blasted, ere you sprout to sprigs;
Feel no season of the year,
But what shaves off all your hair;
Nor carve any from your wombs
Aught but coffins and their tombs.



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