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IN a heavy time I dogged myself / Along a louring way, / Till my leading self to my following self / Said: "Why do you hang on me / So harassingly?"
"I have watched you, Heart of mine," I cried, / "So often going astray / And leaving me, that I have pursued, / Feeling such truancy / Ought not to be."