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First Line: Free is my heart from every weight
Last Line: Are dancing alway.
Subject(s): Zurich (lake), Switzerland


FREE is my heart from every weight,
No care now cumbers me;
O Nature, thou art grand and great,
And beautiful to see!
Our boat goes dancing o'er the wave,
The rudder-track behind;
And yonder rise the mountains brave;
Blow fresh, blow fresh, thou wind!

What is this? Mine eyes are burning!
Golden dreams, are ye returning?
Vanish, golden though you be!
Here is love and life for me.

The spray of the water
Like star-showers is blown;
The mists they draw upwards,
From each mountain throne,
The morning wind ripples
The reach of the bay,
And the trees in the mirror
Are dancing alway.





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