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I beg ye grant, when low I lie, / Before ye close my coffin-bed, / A little black beneath mine eye, / And on my cheek a touch of red!
Ah, make me beautiful as now! / For I would be upon my bier, / As on the night of his avow / Charming and bloomful, gay and dear.