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"Where shall we betake us when the day's work is over? / (Ah, red is the rose-bush in the lane.) / Happy is the maid that knows the footstep of her lover -- / (Sing the song, the Eden song, again.) / Who shall listen to us when black sorrow comes a-reaping? / (See the young lark falling from the sky.) / Happy is the man that has a true heart in his keeping -- / True hearts flourish when the roses die. "