IV

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Song: 'Rarely, rarely, comest thou'

Let me set my mournful ditty

To a merry measure;

Thou wilt never come for pity,

Thou wilt come for pleasure;

Pity then will cut away

Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

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