Some kind angel, gently flying, <br />Moved with pity at my pain, <br />Tell Corinna I am dying <br />Till with joy we meet again. <br /> <br />Tell Corinna, since we parted <br />I have never known delight, <br />And shall soon be broken-hearted <br />If I longer want her sight. <br /> <br />Tell her how her lover, mourning, <br />Thinks each lazy day a year, <br />Cursing every morn returning, <br />Since Corinna is not here. <br /> <br />Tell her, too, not distant places, <br />Will she be but true and kind, <br />Join'd with time and change of faces, <br />E'er shall shake my constant mind.<br /><br />Matthew Prior<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/songs-set-to-music-26/
