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I loved a lass, a fair one,
As fair as e'er was seen;
She was indeed a rare one,
Another Sheba queen:
But, fool as then I was,
I thought she loved me too:
But now, alas! she's left me,
Falero, lero, loo!
--
I Loved a Lass; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390.

 

George Wither

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