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John Dryden (1631–1700). The Poems of John Dryden. 1913.

Songs from the Plays

Song from the Italian, from The Kind Keeper

BY a dismal Cypress lying,

Damon cry’d, all pale and dying,

Kind is Death that ends my pain,

But cruel She I lov’d in vain.

The Mossy Fountains

Murmure my trouble,

And hollow Mountains

My groans redouble:

Every Nymph mourns me,

Thus while I languish;

She only scorns me,

Who caus’d my anguish.

No Love returning me, all my hope denying;

By a dismal Cypress lying,

Like a Swan, so sung he dying:

Kind is Death that ends my pain,

But cruel She I lov’d in vain.