Duet

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Milestone:

All my troubles disappear,
 When the dinner-bell I hear,
 Over woodland, dale, and fell,
 Swinging slow with solemn swell,--
 The dinner-bell! the dinner-bell!


Hippy:

What can bid my heart-ache fly?
 What can bid my heart-ache die?
 What can all the ills dispel,
 In my morbid frame that dwell?
 The dinner-bell! the dinner-bell!


Both:

Hark!--along the tangled ground,
 Loudly floats the pleasing sound!
 Sportive Fauns to Dryads tell,
 'Tis the cheerful dinner-bell!
 The dinner-bell! the dinner-bell!

© Thomas Love Peacock