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First Line: When in summer thou walkest
Last Line: And shed its perfuming and bloom on thy breast.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of


When in summer thou walkest
In the meads by the river,
And to thyself talkest,
Dost thou think of one ever --
A lost and lorn one
That adores thee and loves thee?
And when happy morn's gone,
And nature's calm moves thee,
Leaving thee to thy sleep like an angel at rest,
Does the one who adores thee still live in thy breast?

Does nature e'er give thee
Love's past happy vision,
And wrap thee and leave thee
In fancies Elysian?
Thy beauty I clung to,
As leaves to the tree;
When thou, fair and young too,
Looked lightly on me,
Till love came upon thee like the sun to the west
And shed its perfuming and bloom on thy breast.





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