PASTORALS.
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"O woeful day! O day of woe to me!
"That ever I should live such day to see!
"That ever she could dy! O most unkind,
"To go and leave thy Colinet behind! 56
"From blameless love and plighted troth to go,"
"And leave to Colinet a life of woe!
"That ever I should live such day to see!
"That ever she could dy! O most unkind,
"To go and leave thy Colinet behind! 56
"From blameless love and plighted troth to go,"
"And leave to Colinet a life of woe!
Awake, my pipe; in every note express
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress. 60
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress. 60
"And yet, why blame I her? Full fain would she
"With dying arms have clasp'd herself to me;
"I clasp'd her too, but death prov'd over-strong;
"Nor vows nor tears could fleeting life prolong: 64
"Yet how shall I from vows and tears refrain?
"And why should vows, alas! and tears be vain?
"With dying arms have clasp'd herself to me;
"I clasp'd her too, but death prov'd over-strong;
"Nor vows nor tears could fleeting life prolong: 64
"Yet how shall I from vows and tears refrain?
"And why should vows, alas! and tears be vain?
Awake, my pipe; in every note express
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress. 68
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress. 68
"Aid me to grieve, with bleating moan, my sheep;
"Aid me, thou ever-flowing stream, to weep;
"Aid me ye faint, ye hollow, winds, to sigh,
"And thou, my woe, assist me thou to dy. 72
"Aid me, thou ever-flowing stream, to weep;
"Aid me ye faint, ye hollow, winds, to sigh,
"And thou, my woe, assist me thou to dy. 72
"Me
