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The Snare

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Loose me and let me go!     I am not yours.     I do not know     Your dark name ev'n, O Powers     That out of the deep rise     And wave your arms     To weave strange charms.     Though the snare of eyes     You weave for me,     As a pool lies     In wait for the moon when she     Out of the deep will rise;     And though you set     Like mist your net;     And though my feet you catch,     O dark, strange Powers,     You may not snatch     My soul, or call it yours.     Out of your snare I rise     And pass your charms,     Nor feel your harms.     You loose me and I go:     O see the arms     Spread for me! lo,     His lips break your charms.     From the deep did He rise     And round me set     His Love for net.

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