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First Line: I've calmly lived my sunny little life
Alternate Author Name(s): Droch


Sometimes I've dreamed the cricket told me true;
I've longed for freedom and the pleasing view
Of moss-grown hummocks and great whispering trees,
With gold-winged songsters humming in the breeze.
The dream is over—I have lived my day
Nourished in sun with other violets gay;
And now I'm borne afar to Paradise,
To find my haven in your gentle eyes.
If I may touch your lips I'll die content
Without one glimpse of freedom or days spent
In woodland dells; oh, murmur, while I fade,
Your own sweet mem'ries of the forest glade!
Come, tell me quickly, for my brief hours pass;
What! You too captive in a house of glass?




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