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My Heart Thy Lark

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Why dost thou want to sing         When thou hast no song, my heart?         If there be in thee a hidden spring,         Wherefore will no word start?         On its way thou hearest no song,         Yet flutters thy unborn joy!         The years of thy life are growing long--         Art still the heart of a boy?--         Father, I am thy child!         My heart is in thy hand!         Let it hear some echo, with gladness wild,         Of a song in thy high land.         It will answer--but how, my God,         Thou knowest; I cannot say:         It will spring, I know, thy lark, from thy sod--         Thy lark to meet thy day!

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