Songs Set To Music: 4. Set By Mr. Smith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR STST| Come weep no more for 'tis in vain | A |
| Torment not thus your pretty heart | B |
| Think Flavia we may meet again | C |
| As well as that we now must part | B |
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| You sigh and weep the gods neglect | D |
| That precious dew your eyes let fall | E |
| Our joy and grief with like respect | D |
| They mind and that is not at all | E |
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| We pray in hopes they will be kind | F |
| As if they did regard our state | G |
| They hear and the return we find | F |
| Is that no prayers can alter Fate | G |
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| Then clear your brow and look more gay | H |
| Do not yourself to grief resign | I |
| Who knows but that those powers may | H |
| The pair they now have parted join | J |
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| But since they have thus cruel been | K |
| And could such constant lovers sever | L |
| I dare not trust lest now they're in | K |
| They should divide us two for ever | L |
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| Then Flavia come and let us grieve | M |
| Remembering though upon what score | N |
| This our last parting look believe | M |
| Believe we must embrace no more | N |
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| Yet should our sun shine out at last | O |
| And Fortune without more deceit | P |
| Throw but one reconciling cast | O |
| To make two wandering lovers meet | P |
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| How great then would our pleasures be | Q |
| To find heaven kinder than believed | R |
| And we who had no hopes to see | Q |
| Each other to be thus deceived | R |
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| But say should heaven bring no relief | S |
| Suppose our sun should never rise | T |
| Why then what's due to such a grief | S |
| We've paid already with our eyes | T |
Matthew Prior
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