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LAMENT OVER SIR PHILIP SIDNEY by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "COME TO ME GRIEF, FOR EVER"
Last Line: "SIDNEY, THE SPIRIT HEROIC, / SIDNEY IS DEAD. O DEAD, DEAD"
Subject(s): "COURAGE;SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP (1554-1586);" VALOR;BRAVERY;

Come to me grief, for ever,
Come to me tears day and night,
Come to me plaint! Ah, helpless,
Just grief; heart's tears! plaint worthy.

Go from me dread to die now,
Go from me care to live now,
Go from me joys all on earth,
Sidney, O Sidney, is dead.

He whom the court adorned,
He whom the country courtes'd,
He who made happy his friends,
He that did good to all men.

Sidney, the hope of land strange,
Sidney, the flower of England,
Sidney, the spirit heroic,
Sidney is dead. O dead, dead.



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