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SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 23, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain, alas! Poor strephon tries
Last Line: But, amoret, in thee.
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


IN vain, alas! poor Strephon tries
To ease his tortured breast;
Since Amoret the cure denies,
And makes his pain a jest.

Ah! fair one, why to me so coy,
And why to him so true;
Who with more coldness slights the joy,
Than I with love pursue?

Die then, unhappy lover! die,
For, since she gives thee death,
The world has nothing that can buy
A minute more of breath.

Yet, though I could your scorn outlive,
'Twere folly; since to me
Not love itself a joy can give,
But, Amoret, in thee.





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