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The Spinner

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Oh, what was it he meant     By his question as he went?      "I am making a loom,     'T will be up in April's bloom;      If you think it may be,      Spin for me!"      Oh, what shall I believe?     Does he think himself to weave?      And the yarn that I spin,     Lo, he thinks to weave it in?      And so soon as the Spring      Flowers shall bring?      And he laughed when he'd done;     Oh, he is so full of fun.      Dare I trust all my skein     To so young and wild a swain? -      May God help to bind in      All I spin!

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