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AIR AND LIGHT
Ah! look and see how widely free
O'er all the land the wind will spread;
If here a tree-top sways, a tree
On yonder hillock waves its head.
How wide the light outshows to sight
The place and living face of man?
How far the river runs for lip
To drink, or hand to sink and dip.
O'er all the land the wind will spread;
If here a tree-top sways, a tree
On yonder hillock waves its head.
How wide the light outshows to sight
The place and living face of man?
How far the river runs for lip
To drink, or hand to sink and dip.
But one may sink with sudden woe
That may not pass, in wider flight,
To other souls, declining slow,
And hush'd, like birds at fall of night.
And some are sad, while some are glad;
In turn we all may mourn our lot:
And days that come in joy may go
In evenings sad with heavy woe.
That may not pass, in wider flight,
To other souls, declining slow,
And hush'd, like birds at fall of night.
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In turn we all may mourn our lot:
And days that come in joy may go
In evenings sad with heavy woe.
The morning sun may cast abroad
His light on dew about our feet,
And down below his noontide road
The streams may glare below his heat;
The evening light may sparkle bright
Across the quiv'ring gossamer;
But I, though fair he still may glow,
Must miss a face he cannot show.
His light on dew about our feet,
And down below his noontide road
The streams may glare below his heat;
The evening light may sparkle bright
Across the quiv'ring gossamer;
But I, though fair he still may glow,
Must miss a face he cannot show.
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