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ECHO TO A ROCK by EDWARD HERBERT

First Line: THOU HEAVEN-THREAT'NING ROCK, GENTLER THAN SHE!
Last Line: ECHO. WELL.
Subject(s): ECHO (MYTHOLOGY); STONES; GRANITE; ROCKS;
THOU heaven-threat'ning rock, gentler than she!
Since of my pain
Thou still more sensible wilt be,
Only when thou giv'st leave but to complain---
@3Echo.@1 Complain.

But thou dost answer too, although in vain
Thou answer'st when thou canst no pity show.
@3Echo.@1 Oh.

What, canst thou speak, and pity too?
Then yet a further favour do,
And tell if of my griefs I any end shall know.
@3Echo.@1 No.

Sure she will pity him that loves her so truly.
@3Echo.@1 You lie.
Vile rock, thou now grow'st so unruly,
That hadst thou life as thou hast voice,
Thou shouldst die at my foot.
@3Echo.@1 Die at my foot.

Thou canst not make me do 't,
Unless thou leave it to my choice,
Who thy hard sentence shall fulfil,
When thou shalt say I die to please her only will.
@3Echo.@1 I will.
When she comes hither, then, I pray thee tell
Thou art my monument, and this my last farewell.
@3Echo.@1 Well.



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