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The flower fairies bring Their playmate Spring, But the Spring goes And takes no rose. She breaks all hearts To incense and departs. p. 93 The river fain would keep One cloud upon its breast Of the twilight flocks that sweep Like red flamingoes fading west, Away, away, To build beyond the day. Give me the green gloom of a lofty tree, Leaf and bough to shutter and bar My dream of the world that ought to be From the drifting ghosts of the things that are. Mine is a secret land where Spring And sunset clouds cease wandering.
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file cfu/fol/fol66.htm.
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