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A scarecrow in a field of corn, / A thing of tatters all forlorn, / Once felt the influence of Spring / And fell in love -- a foolish thing, / And most particularly so / In his case -- _for he loved a crow_!
"Alack-a-day! it's wrong, I know, / It's wrong for me to love a crow; / An all-wise man created me / To scare the crows away," cried he; / "And though the music of her ‘Caw' / Thrills through and through this heart of straw,