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Song: My Spirit Like A Shepherd Boy

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"Convalescente di squisiti mali"         My spirit like a shepherd boy         Goes dancing down the lane.         When all the world is young with joy         Must I lie here in pain?         With shepherd's pipe my spirit fled         And cloven foot of Pan;         The mortal bondage he has shed         And shackling yoke of man.         And though he leave me cold and mute,         A traitor to his care,         I smile to hear his honeyed flute         Hang on the scented air.

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