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I. There breathes not a breath of the summer air / But the spirit of love is moving there; / Not a trembling leaf on the shadowy tree, / Flutters with hundreds in harmony, / But that spirit can part its tone from the rest, / And read the life in its beetle's breast.
When the sunshiny butterflies come and go, / Like flowers paying visits to and fro, / Not a single wave of their fanning wings / Is unfelt by the spirit that feeleth all things.