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The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave.

There twice a day the Severn fills, The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

The Wye is hush'd nor moved along; And hush'd my deepest grief of all, When fill'd with tears that cannot fall, I brim with sorrow drowning song,

The tide flows down, the wave again Is vocal in its wooded walls: My deeper anguish also falls, And I can speak a little then.