On the Death of a Linnet

IF cruell Death had Eares,
Or could be pleas'd by Songs,
This wing'd Musician had l…v'd many yeares,
And Nisa mine had never w…pt these Wrongs:
For when it first took Breath,
The Heavens their Notes did unto it bequeath:
And if that Samians sentences be true,
Amphion in this Body liv'd anew.
But Death, who nothing spares, and nothing heares,
As he doth Kings, kill'd it, O Griefe! O Teares!