| Harken! |
| — the clouds mustered in dark —
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| So painfully easing.
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| Hush! |
| — hearest ye the yew doting;
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| Its years of yore in a mire,
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| Each like a corpse within its grave;
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| Wrought for us a yearn of lief;
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| Tis not a lore of bale nor loathe;
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| Harmony and aesthesia are its blisses;
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| Ne’er ere hath it exist’d so sonorously —
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| Jostl’d away the pale drape
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| That us had been o’erhung —
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| Tempt’d thy shutters to open
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| And thus quench’d the hearth;
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| Thou giv’st to misery all thou hast: the cold —
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| With weal embrac’d the sprounting landscape
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| Like a star of heaven in the broad daylight —
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| This joy subdueth until it again waneth,
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| Save the drooping winter of stalwart. |