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Thou who singest through the earth, / All the earth's wild creatures fly thee, / Everywhere thou marrest mirth. / Dumbly they defy thee. / There is something they deny thee.
Pines thy fallen nature ever / For the unfallen Nature sweet. / But she shuns thy long endeavour, / Though her flowers and wheat / Throng and press thy pausing feet.