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Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cutting, Wings, Pity
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.