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- HE THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS WHEN A PART OF THE CONSTELLATIONS OF HEAVEN
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- I HAVE drunk ale from the Country of the Young
- And weep because I know all things now:
- I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung
- The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough
- Among my leaves in times out of mind:
- I became a rush that horses tread:
- I became a man, a hater of the wind,
- Knowing one, out of all things, alone, that his head
- May not lie on the breast nor his lips on thc hair
- Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
- O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
- Must I endure your amorous cries?
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