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A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 33 by THOMAS CAMPION

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First Line: AYE ME! THAT LOVE SHOULD NATURES WORKS ACCUSE
Last Line: A GRIEF, O DEATH! TO LIVE AND LOVE IN VAIN.
Subject(s): LOVE – UNREQUITED;
AYE me! that love should Nature's work accuse!
Where cruel Laura still her beauty views,
River, or cloudy jet, or crystal bright,
Are all but servants of her self-delight.

Yet her deformed thoughts she cannot see;
And that's the cause she is so stern to me.
Virtue and duty can no favour gain:
A grief, O death! to live and love in vain.



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