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With A Painted Ribbon.

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Little leaves and flow'rets too,     Scatter we with gentle hand,     Kind young spring-gods to the view,     Sporting on an airy band.     Zephyr, bear it on the wing,     Twine it round my loved one's dress;     To her glass then let her spring,     Full of eager joyousness.     Roses round her let her see,     She herself a youthful rose.     Grant, dear life, one look to me!     'Twill repay me all my woes,     What this bosom feels, feel thou.     Freely offer me thy hand;     Let the band that joins us now     Be no fragile rosy band!

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