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AIRS FOR THE LUTE: 1 by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

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First Line: WHEN THE SOBBING LUTE COMPLAINS
Last Line: HAND AND VOICE UNTO THE LUTE!
Subject(s): LUTES;

When the sobbing lute complains,
Grieving for an ancient sorrow,
This poor sorrow that remains
Fain would borrow,
To give pleading unto sorrow,
Those uncapturable strains.

All, that hands upon the lute
Helped the voices to declare,
Voices mute
But for this, might I not share,
If, alas, I could but suit
Hand and voice unto the lute!



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