Tis Said, that Some Have Died for Love

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'Tis said, that some have died for love: / And here and there a church-yard grave is found / In the cold North's unhallowed ground, / Because the wretched Man himself had slain, / His love was such a grievous pain.

And there is one whom I five years have known; / He dwells alone / Upon Helvellyn's side: / He loved -- the pretty Barbara died, / And thus he makes his moan: / Three years had Barbara in her grave been laid / When thus his moan he made: / "Oh move, thou Cottage, from behind that oak!

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