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Allurement.

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From yonder hedge, from yonder spray,     He calls me onward and away;     Broad lies the world and fair to see,     The cuckoo calls, is calling me!     I have not seen nor heard of Care,     Who used my very bed to share,     Since that first morn when, airily,     The cuckoo, calling, called to me!     My sweetheart's face? I have forgot;     My mother? But she calls me not;     From that green bank, from that dim lea,     The cuckoo calls, is calling me!     And I must go, I may not choose;     No gain there is, nor aught to lose;     And soon, ah, soon!, on some wild tree     The bird sits long and waits for me!

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