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FAST AND LOOSE

LOVE holds me so!
I would that I could go!
I flutter up and down, and to and fro,
In vain,—Love holds me so!
Love let me go.—
I seek him high and low;
I wander up and down, and to and fro,
In vain, in vain; and life is cruel woe,
Since Love has let me go.