O Cool Is the Valley Now

 O cool is the valley now 
And there, love, will we go 
For many a choir is singing now 
Where Love did sometime go. 
And hear you not the thrushes calling, 
Calling us away? 
O cool and pleasant is the valley 
And there, love, will we stay.

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