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George Parsons Lathrop

How sweetly sang the bobolink,
  When thou, my Love, wast nigh!
His liquid music from the brink
Of some cloud-fountain seemed to sink,
  Built in the blue-domed sky.

How sadly sings the bobolink!
  No more my Love is nigh:
Yet rise, my spirit, rise, and drink
Once more from that cloud-fountain’s brink,—
  Once more before I die!

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From Rose and Roof-Tree: Poems

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