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LINOS by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "O LINOS, PURE MUSIC WAS GIVEN"
Last Line: AND TEARS OF THE MUSES FOR THEE ARE SHED
O LINOS, pure music was given
To thee of all mortals alone, --
Thy gift, by the grace of all heaven,
Or ever a singer was known.
Phoebus in anger strikes thee dead,
And tears of the Muses for thee are shed.



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