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SONGS OF THE SOUL


   Then would I flash forth varied smiles,   Or languorous walk in sorrow robed,   Or charm with sparkling wiles   And time beguile;
   Or march with martial songs,   To right all wordly wrongs;   Or wear a powerful prophet mind   And into dust earth’s sorrows grind;
   Or wear the youthful hermit’s heart,   To scatter love and strength impart.
I’d wear each heartAnd don each will and smiles and spend my pelfTo try all noble minds and thoughtsAnd take what suits myself.
With brain-born nixes,With marsh-marauding hopes and pixies,With every elfin thought that timid trod on mindI’d friendship find.

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