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Other, for they have been sweethearts ever since English was 

 spoken : 



'"Ah! Robin, 

 Joly Robin ! 



Tell me how thy leman doeth, 

 And thou shalt knowe of myn.' 

 ' My lady is nnkinde, perde.' 

 ' Alacke why is she so ? ' 

 ' She loveth another better than me, 

 And yet she will say no.' " 



What an enchantino" entano-lement it is, this of the robin 

 and the wren, and yet we know that It was approved, for 

 when Cock Robin died, all the birds in the air, in sympathy 

 for the dead and for Jenny — 



" Fell a sighin' and sobbin'." 



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