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My Voice

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Within this restless, hurried, modern world     We took our hearts' full pleasure You and I,     And now the white sails of our ship are furled,     And spent the lading of our argosy.     Wherefore my cheeks before their time are wan,     For very weeping is my gladness fled,     Sorrow has paled my young mouth's vermilion,     And Ruin draws the curtains of my bed.     But all this crowded life has been to thee     No more than lyre, or lute, or subtle spell     Of viols, or the music of the sea     That sleeps, a mimic echo, in the shell.

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"Within this restless, hurried, modern world..."

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