“Let me say
and not mourn: the world
lives in the death of speech
and sings there.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
The Silence.
Poems
“Flow my tears, fall from your springs,
Exil'd for ever: let me mourn
Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorn.”
"Flow my tears", line 1, The Second Book of Songs (1600).
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Exil'd for ever: let me mourn
Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,
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John Dowland7
English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer 1563–1626Related quotes
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