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Question 75: Source of "your mournful ditty"?
"You must turn your mournful ditty
To a merry measure,
I will never come for pity,
I will come for pleasure."
A. The quote you mention appears in the book Out of Africa on page 356 (Vintage paperback, 1985). The stanza, in a slight variation, comes from "Song" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822).
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