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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Song: ‘Come, list and hark’

By Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641)

From ‘The Rape of Lucrece’

COME, list and hark;

The bell doth toll

For some but now

Departing soul.

And was not that

Some ominous fowl,

The bat, the night-

Crow, or screech-owl?

To these, I hear

The wild wolf howl,

In this black night

That seems to scowl.

All these my black

Book shall enroll,

For hark! still, still

The bell doth toll

For some but now

Departing soul.