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Oh, here I lift
this one hand up to heaven
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and bow this feeble ruin
to the earth.
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If any power pities wretched tears,
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to that I call.
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What, wouldst thou kneel with me?
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Do, then, dear heart,
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for heaven shall hear our prayers,
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or with our sighs
we'll breathe the welkin dim
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and stain the sun with fog,
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as sometimes clouds
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when they do hug him
in their melting bosoms.
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O Brother,
speak with possibility,
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and do not break into
these deep extremes.
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Are not my sorrows deep,
having no bottom?
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Then be my passions
bottomless with them.
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But yet let reason
govern thy lament.
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Ha ha! If there were reason
for these miseries,
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then into limits could I bind my woes!
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When heaven doth weep...
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doth not the earth overflow?
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If the winds rage,
doth not the sea wax mad,
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threatening the welkin
with his big, swollen face?
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Wouldst thou have
a reason for this coil?
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I am the sea.
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Hark how her sighs do blow.
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She is the weeping welkin,
I the earth.
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Then must my sea
be moved with her sighs.
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Then must my earth
with her continual tears
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become a deluge,
overflowed and drowned.
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For why my bowels
cannot hide her woes,
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but like a drunkard
must I vomit them.