Lyrics - Viii. Escalation - A - (sonnet Xxx) by Coil

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing
I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can
I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can
I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which
I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while
I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

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