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Andrew Macphail, comp.  The Book of Sorrow.  1916.
 
XXIV. Bitter Sorrow
From ‘A Funeral Song’
By Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562)
 
YEA, and a good cause, why thus should I plain!
For what is he can quietly sustain
So great a grief, with mouth as still as stone?
My love! my life! of joy my jewel is gone!…
 
 
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