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Tell me Babbling Echo why

1798/99

Source: Tate Gallery

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Babbling Echo tell me why

You return me sigh for sigh

When I of Slighted Love complain

You delight to Mock my Pain

2

Bold intruder Night and Day

Busy telltale [censor inserted above] hence away

Me and my care in silence leave

Come not near me while I grieve

3

But should my Swain with all her charms

Return to Bless my longing arms

I'd call the [sic] from the dark retreat

The Joyfull tidings to repeat.

4

Repeat Repeat Repeat thy strain

Tell it o'er and o'er again

From Morn to Night prolong the tale

Let it ring from Vale to Vale.