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Spring, and the wispy clouds that fade away     And draw the ecstatic soul in pain to aspire     In maddening flight through heavens thin flood of fire     To melt in rapture at the heart of day,     The powers of the world that promise and betray     Have dragged me from you in their icy ire     And set me spinning at their loom, for hire,     The shroud in which my senses must decay.     For hire I give myself, and cannot tell     If the blind force that flings me in the chest     Have power or will to pay the bargained price,     Yet for a word of love I gladly quell     The quivering hope of not inactive rest     And very humbly make my sacrifice.

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