She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful…

William Shakespeare
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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so. ✨ William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). Poems: Third Series, p.203, Cengage Learning EMEA
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