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DISTRACTION
I lapse from her sweet play. Although
My heart had hardly beat
For a dream instant, the wild child
Stamps with imperious feet.
My heart had hardly beat
For a dream instant, the wild child
Stamps with imperious feet.
Wind-quickened shook the forest boughs;
Green glitterings died and came;
O'er her young stormy beauty broke
Ripples of shade and flame.
Green glitterings died and came;
O'er her young stormy beauty broke
Ripples of shade and flame.
I wake, my lovely child, I wake;
I fly thy slave to be.
Forgive, O voices from the deep,
Yet come again to me.
I fly thy slave to be.
Forgive, O voices from the deep,
Yet come again to me.
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