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Live all thy sweet life through / Sweet Rose, dew-sprent, / Drop down thine evening dew / To gather it anew / When day is bright: / I fancy thou wast meant / Chiefly to give delight.
Sing in the silent sky, / Glad soaring bird; / Sing out thy notes on high / To sunbeam straying by / Or passing cloud; / Heedless if thou art heard / Sing thy full song aloud.
O that it were with me / As with the flower; / Blooming on its own tree / For butterfly and bee / Its summer morns: / That I might bloom mine hour / A rose in spite of thorns.
O that my work were done / As birds' that soar / Rejoicing in the sun: / That when my time is run / And daylight too, / I so might rest once more / Cool with refreshing dew.