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The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

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