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SONG by JOHN DOWLAND

First Line: ME, ME, AND NONE BUT ME, DART HOME, O GENTLE DEATH
Last Line: HE NEVER HAPPY LIVED THAT CANNOT LOVE TO DIE.
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; JOY; DELIGHT;
ME, me, and none but me, dart home, O gentle death,
And quickly, for I draw too long this idle breath:
O how I long till I may fly to Heaven above,
Unto my faithful and beloved turtle dove.

Like to the silver swan, before my death I sing:
And yet alive, my fatal knell I help to ring.
Still I desire from earth and earthly joys to fly,
He never happy lived that cannot love to die.



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