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John Alcock
(1715 - 1806)
Stretched on the bier Dorinda lies
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In Matthew Prior's original "elegiac tale" the dead lover is a male yclept Columbo.
Lyrics: Matthew Prior
Stretch'd on the bier Dorinda lies,
Pale are her cheeks, and closed her eyes;
Those cheeks, where beauty smiling lay,
Those eyes, where Love was used to play;
Ah! cruel Fate, alas how soon
That beauty and those joys are flown!
Dorinda is no more: ye floods,
Bear the sad sound to distant woods;
The sound let echo's voice restore,
And say, Dorinda is no more.
Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan
My dear Dorinda, dead and gone.
Stretch'd on the bier Dorinda lies,
Pale are her cheeks, and closed her eyes;
Those cheeks, where beauty smiling lay,
Those eyes, where Love was used to play;
Ah! cruel Fate, alas how soon
That beauty and those joys are flown!
Dorinda is no more: ye floods,
Bear the sad sound to distant woods;
The sound let echo's voice restore,
And say, Dorinda is no more.
Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan
My dear Dorinda, dead and gone.