Oh! there are Spirits of the Air

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Oh! there are spirits of the air, / And genii of the evening breeze, / And gentle ghosts, with eyes as fair / As star-beams among twilight trees: - / Such lovely ministers to meet / Oft hast thou turned from men thy lonely feet.

With mountain winds, and babbling springs, / And moonlight seas, that are the voice / Of these inexplicable things, / Thou didst hold commune, and rejoice / When they did answer thee; but they / Cast, like a worthless boon, thy love away.

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