"Hark you shadows that in darkness dwell, Learn to contemn light, Happy, happy they that in hell Feel not the world's despite."
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"Flow my tears", line 21, The Second Book of Songs.
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John Dowland
John Dowland (1563β1626) was an English composer, lutenist and singer. The lyrics of most of his songs are, through lack of evidence to the contrary, conventionally attributed to Dowland himself.
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