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Ailes d'Alouette

(Second Series): By F. W. Bourdillon
Bourdillon, Francis William (1852-1921)

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FEAR

O hvnted eyes that haunt my dream,
Because before my harmless tread
Some timid creature of the stream
To-day in terror fled!
Dame Nature hath us all at school;
We live and move by laws austere;
But of all sanctions of her rule
The most abhorred is Fear.
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