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First Line: Here love the slain with love the slayer lies
Last Line: Bubbles the wan mirth of the mirthless fool.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


Here Love the slain with Love the slayer lies;
Deep drown'd are both in the same sunless pool.
Up from its depths that mirror thundering skies
Bubbles the wan mirth of the mirthless Fool.





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