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Lyrics of Love and Laughter

Dance, lady, dance to the brink of our parting,
My heart and your step must not fail to be light.
Dance! Just a turn - tho' the tear-drop be starting.
Ah - now it is done - so - my lady, goodnight!

RESPONSE.

WHEN Phyllis sighs and from her eyes
The light dies out; my soul replies
With misery of deep-drawn breath,
E'en as it were at war with death.

When Phyllis smiles, her glance beguiles
My heart through love-lit woodland aisles,
And through the silence high and clear,
A wooing warbler's song I hear.

But if she frown, despair comes down,
I put me on my sack-cloth gown;
So frown not, Phyllis, lest I die,
But look on me with smile or sigh.

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