The lowest trees have tops

No. 19 from The Third Booke of Songs

John Dowland
(1563 - 1626)

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love is love, in beg - gars and in kings.

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2. Where waters smoothest run, deep are the fords,

The dial stirs, yet none perceives it move.
The firmest faith is in the fewest words,
The turtles cannot sing, and yet they love.
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak:
They hear, and see, and sigh, and then they break.