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I Worked No Wile To Meet You (Song)

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I worked no wile to meet you,     My sight was set elsewhere,     I sheered about to shun you,     And lent your life no care.     I was unprimed to greet you     At such a date and place,     Constraint alone had won you     Vision of my strange face!     You did not seek to see me     Then or at all, you said,      Meant passing when you neared me,     But stumblingblocks forbade.     You even had thought to flee me,     By other mindings moved;     No influent star endeared me,     Unknown, unrecked, unproved!     What, then, was there to tell us     The flux of flustering hours     Of their own tide would bring us     By no device of ours     To where the daysprings well us     Heart-hydromels that cheer,     Till Time enearth and swing us     Round with the turning sphere.

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