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SONG by JOSEPH ADDISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: ECHO, TELL ME, WHILE I WANDER
Last Line: ECHO: WED HIM, WED HIM!
Subject(s): MAY (MONTH);
ECHO, tell me, while I wander
O'er this fairy plain to prove him,
If my shepherd still grows fonder,
Ought I in return to love him?
Echo: Love him, love him!

If he loves, as is the fashion,
Should I churlishly forsake him?
Or in pity to his passion,
Fondly to my bosom take him?
Echo: Take him, take him!

Thy advice then, I'll adhere to,
Since in Cupid's chains I've led him;
And with Henry shall not fear to
Marry, if you answer, "Wed him!"
Echo: Wed him, wed him!



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