Aubade -- Auntie Mary and Gretchen

au·bade  (-bäd) n. 1. A song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak. 2. A poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn. [French, from Old French albade, from Old Provençal albada, from alba, dawn, aubade, from Latin, feminine of albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots.]

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Auntie Mary wakes every morning with an audible moan: if only Gretchen were here to sing the morning's aubade!