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First Line: Pretty player, from thy strings
Last Line: Kiss, and say good-bye to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Fiddles; Holidays; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Valentine's Day


PRETTY player, from thy strings
Little whispers take them wings—
Take them wings and hie to me!
In my hollow heart they dwell
Swinging it as 'twere a bell
Ding-a-ding inside o' me.
Hand to play and heart to ring—
Together might they make a spring
On earth beyond imagining:
But nay, and nay—
For now my love's denied to me.
Therefore, dear, lay down thy fiddle,
Clip me once around the middle,
Kiss, and say good-bye to me!





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