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| SO ENDLESSLY the gray-lipped sea | |
| Kept me within his eye, | |
| And lean he licked his hollow flanks | |
| And followed up the sky. | |
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| I was the lark whose song was heard | 5 |
| When I was lost to sight, | |
| I was the golden arrow loosed | |
| To pierce the heart of night. | |
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| I fled the little earth, I climbed | |
| Above the rising sun, | 10 |
| I met the morning in a blaze | |
| Before my hour was gone. | |
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| I ran beyond the rim of space, | |
| Its reins I flung aside, | |
| Laughter was mine and mine was youth | 15 |
| And all my own was pride. | |
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| From end to end I knew the way | |
| I had no doubt nor fear | |
| The minutes were a forfeit paid | |
| To fetch the landfall near. | 20 |
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| But all at once my heart I held, | |
| My carol frozen died, | |
| A white cloud laid her cheek to mine | |
| And wove me to her side. | |
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| Her icy fingers clasped my flesh, | 25 |
| Her hair drooped in my face, | |
| And up we fell and down we rose | |
| And twisted into space. | |
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| Laughter was mine and mine was youth, | |
| I pressed the edge of life, | 30 |
| I kissed the sun and raced the wind, | |
| I found immortal strife. | |
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| Out of myself I spent myself, | |
| I lost the mortal share, | |
| My grave is in the ashen plain, | 35 |
| My spirit in the air. | |
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| Good-bye, sweet pride of man that flew, | |
| Sweet pain of man that bled, | |
| I was the lark that spilled his heart, | |
| The golden arrow sped. | 40 |
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| So endlessly the gray-lipped sea | |
| Kept me within his eye | |
| And lean he licked his hollow flanks | |
| And followed up the sky. | |
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