first line (public domain): Well! If the bard was weather-wise, who made The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence, This night, so tranquil mow, will not go hence Unroused by winds, that ply a busier trade Than those which mold yon cloud in lazy flakes, Or the dull sobbing draft, that moans and rakes Upon the strings of this Aeolian lute, Which better far were mute.
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Sir Patrick Spens • Epigraph to 'Dejection' are four lines from 'Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence' starting "Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon ...", and Spence is also referred to in first stanza.
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