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IMMORTAL CLOUDS.
O clouds, immortal clouds!
You rise and float like flowers
Whose shaken dew might pour
Through space, in perfumed showers.
You rise and float like flowers
Whose shaken dew might pour
Through space, in perfumed showers.
Like flowers you bloom and fade;
Like stricken hearts you tremble
And pass, yet seem to stay—
So swift you reassemble.
Like stricken hearts you tremble
And pass, yet seem to stay—
So swift you reassemble.
O clouds, immortal clouds!
With you I fain would wander;
So spirit-like you grow,
Floating to Heaven yonder!
With you I fain would wander;
So spirit-like you grow,
Floating to Heaven yonder!
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