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A Song.

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Oh night and sleep,     Ye are so soft and deep,     I am so weary, come ye soon to me.     Oh hours that creep,     With so much time to weep,     I am so tired, can ye no swifter be?     Come, night, anear;     I'll whisper in thine ear     What makes me so unhappy, full of care;     Dear night, I die     For love that all men buy     With tears, and know not it is dark despair.     Dear night, I pray,     How is it that men say     That love is sweet? It is not sweet to me.     For one boy's sake     A poor girl's heart must break;     So sweet, so true, and yet it could not be!     Oh, I loved well,     Such love as none can tell:     It was so true, it could not make him know:     For he was blind,     All light and all unkind:     Oh, had he known, would he have hurt me so?     Oh night and sleep,     Ye are so soft and deep,     I am so weary, come ye soon to me.     Oh hours that creep,     With so much time to weep,     I am so tired, can ye no swifter be?

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"Oh night and sleep,..."

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