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The Moon Maiden's Song.

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Sleep! Cast thy canopy     Over this sleeper's brain,     Dim grow his memory,     When he awake again.     Love stays a summer night,     Till lights of morning come;     Then takes her wingd flight     Back to her starry home.     Sleep! Yet thy days are mine;     Love's seal is over thee:     Far though my ways from thine,     Dim though thy memory.     Love stays a summer night,     Till lights of morning come;     Then takes her winged flight     Back to her starry home.

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