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A Daughter Of Eve.

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A fool I was to sleep at noon,     And wake when night is chilly     Beneath the comfortless cold moon;     A fool to pluck my rose too soon,     A fool to snap my lily.     My garden-plot I have not kept;     Faded and all-forsaken,     I weep as I have never wept:     Oh it was summer when I slept,     It's winter now I waken.     Talk what you please of future spring     And sun-warmed sweet to-morrow: -     Stripped bare of hope and every thing,     No more to laugh, no more to sing,     I sit alone with sorrow.

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"A fool I was to sleep at noon,..."

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