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The song of the sorrow of Melisande is a weary song and a dreary song, / The glory of Mariana's grange had got into great decay, / The song of the Raven Never More has never been called a cheery song, / And the brightest things in Baudelaire are anything else but gay.
But who will write us a riding song, / Or a hunting song or a drinking song, / Fit for them that arose and rode / When day and the wine were red? / But bring me a quart of claret out, / And I will write you a clinking song, / A song of war and a song of wine / And a song to wake the dead.