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First Line: If I could steal your wings
Last Line: That's what I do with them.


IF I could steal your wings
When you were through with them,
Nightingale, nightingale,
What would I do with them?

Fly to the golden South?
Fly to the heaven?
Fly where the flowers blow
Seven times seven?

If I could steal your wings
When you were through with them,
Into her heart I'd fly—
That's what I do with them.





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