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First Line: My blood flows fresh, my soul finds food
Last Line: Fruits half hid in the grove.
Subject(s): Zurich (lake), Switzerland


MY blood flows fresh, my soul finds food,
I roam the world at large;
And Nature, -- smiles she not most good?
She holds my heart in charge.
The wavelets lift our little boat,
With the oars, in measured beat,
And hills, piled cloudlike, hither float
Our bounding bark to meet.

Eye, mine eye, why art thou sinking?
Of those dreams must still be thinking?
Go, Dream! golden as thou art;
Here, too, love and life have part.

Under the wave fly, blinking,
Shoals of stars, as I ponder;
Flocks of clouds hang drinking
Round the hills away yonder;
Morning wind is dancing
O'er the shadowy cove,
From the lake come glancing
Fruits half hid in the grove.





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