Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes In The Air

Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air

by Thomas Campion

Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air is a poem by Thomas Campion, an English composer, poet, and physician. The poem is a lament for the loss of love, and it is set to music for solo voice and lute. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter, and it consists of three stanzas. The first stanza describes the speaker's grief, and the second stanza describes the speaker's memories of his lost love. The third stanza is a plea to the speaker's lost love to return.

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