Dialogue on the Threshold

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29 September 2013

Shadows that in darkness dwell

 John Dowland (1563-1626), Flow My Tears (Second Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1600)

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Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell,
Learn to contemn light.
Happy, happy they that in hell
Feel not the world's despite.