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First Line: Ah! Now farewell thou sweet and gentle maid
Last Line: Was calm in sorrow, and to heaven resigned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


AH! now farewell, thou sweet and gentle maid,
Beside thy simple grave we oft shall mourn;
And plant a willow where thy form is laid,
And then with flowers the weeping tree adorn.
Oft shall we sing thy melancholy tale,
When all the shades of evening steal around;
And oft assemble by the moonlight pale,
To linger near the consecrated ground.
And oh! if spirits e'er on earth descend,
To hover o'er some chosen hallowed spot;
Around thy tomb shall airy bands attend,
And humble villagers shall weep thy lot.
Ah! fair departed maid, thy placid mind
Was calm in sorrow, and to Heaven resigned.







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