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THE western wind is blowing fair / Across the dark Ægean sea, / And at the secret marble stair / My Tyrian galley waits for thee. / Come down! the purple sail is spread, / The watchman sleeps within the town, / O leave thy lily-flowered bed, / O Lady mine come down, come down!
She will not come, I know her well, / Of lover's vows she hath no care, / And little good a man can tell / Of one so cruel and so fair. / True love is but a woman's toy, / They never know the lover's pain, / And I who loved as loves a boy / Must love in vain, must love in vain.