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THE SAD SHEPHERD
Shepherd
That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year
I wished before it ceased.
Goatherd
Nor bird nor beast
Could make me wish for anything this day,
Being old, but that the old alone might die,
And that would be against God's Providence.
Let the young wish. But what has brought you here?
Never until this moment have we met
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