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What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow:
What are brief? to-day and to-morrow:
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth:
What are deep? the ocean and truth.

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There is but one May in the year,

And sometimes May is wet and cold; There is but one May in the year Before the year grows old.

Yet though it be the chilliest May,

With least of sun and most of showers,

Its wind and dew, its night and day,
Bring up the flowers.

The summer nights are short
Where northern days are long:

For hours and hours lark after lark

Trills out his song.

The summer days are short

Where southern nights are long: Yet short the night when nightingales Trill out their song.

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And June

Must follow soon:

Stay, June, stay!

If only we could stop the moon And June!

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Twist me a crown of wind-flowers; That I may fly away

To hear the singers at their song,
And players at their play.

Put on your crown of wind-flowers:
But whither would you go?
Beyond the surging of the sea
And the storms that blow.

Alas! your crown of wind-flowers
Can never make you fly :

I twist them in a crown to-day,
And to-night they die.

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