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English Songs and Ballads

by T. W. H. Crosland

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Song

 Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
 Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
   O, prepare it;
My part of death no one so true
   Did share it.

 Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin let there be strown;
 Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
   Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover ne’er find my grave
   To weep there.

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