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While not wishing to out-do Calibs and Ferney in depths (heights) of sporting dorkery, I immediately recalled Dowland's 'Sorrow, stay' on seeing the thread title.
Valeria Mignaco, sopranoAlfonso Marin, lutePerformed at the presentation of our latest CD "Clear or Cloudy" for the label Musica Ficta. English Reformed Chur...
...one of his most poignantly beautiful IMO, but go to about 2'15" if you must cut to the chase.
I thought of Ravenscroft's The Three Ravens:
There were three rauens sat on a tree,
downe a downe, hay downe, hay downe,
There were three rauens sat on a tree,
with a downe,
There were three rauens sat on a tree,
They were as blacke as they might be.
With a downe, derrie, derrie, derrie, downe, downe.
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