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[As Love and Hope together]
As Love and Hope together
Walk by me for a while,
Link-armed the ways they travel
For many a pleasant mile—
Link-armed and dumb they travel—
They sing not, but they smile.
Walk by me for a while,
Link-armed the ways they travel
For many a pleasant mile—
Link-armed and dumb they travel—
They sing not, but they smile.
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Hope leaving, Love commences
To practise on the lute;
And as he sings and travels
With lingering, laggard foot,
Despair plays obligato
The sentimental flute.
To practise on the lute;
And as he sings and travels
With lingering, laggard foot,
Despair plays obligato
The sentimental flute.
Until, in singing garments,
Comes royally, at call—
Comes limber-hipped Indiff'rence
Free-stepping, straight and tall—
Comes singing and lamenting—
The sweetest pipe of all.
Comes royally, at call—
Comes limber-hipped Indiff'rence
Free-stepping, straight and tall—
Comes singing and lamenting—
The sweetest pipe of all.
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