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A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10. THE DYING FALL, by             Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet!
Last Line: It shall suffice that they were breathed and died for her delight.
Variant Title(s): Devotion (2);song From Lute Books
Subject(s): Love


FOLLOW your saint, follow with accents sweet!
Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet!
There, wrapt in cloud of sorrow, pity move,
And tell the ravisher of my soul I perish for her love:
But if she scorns my never-ceasing pain,
Then burst with sighing in her sight, and ne'er return again!

All that I sung still to her praise did tend;
Still she was first, still she my songs did end;
Yet she my love and music both doth fly,
The music that her echo is and beauty's sympathy:
Then let my notes pursue her scornful flight!
It shall suffice that they were breathed and died for her delight.





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