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I. HEART-FREE
The First is for love and thee, Mary,—
The First is for love and thee;
And so firmly hold
Those links of gold,
That the Second it never shall be—Mary!
The First is for love and thee;
And so firmly hold
Those links of gold,
That the Second it never shall be—Mary!
The Second is ever free, Mary,—
Free as the foaming brine;
As the fires that fly
From the poet's eye,
Or the laugh that speaks in thine—Mary!
Free as the foaming brine;
As the fires that fly
From the poet's eye,
Or the laugh that speaks in thine—Mary!
Though the First be a wayward thing, Mary,—
Though a wayward thing it be,
When thought hath power
In the midnight hour,
Be sure it is ever with thee—Mary!
Though a wayward thing it be,
When thought hath power
In the midnight hour,
Be sure it is ever with thee—Mary!
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