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Twine the young glowing wreath
But pour not all your spirit in the song,
Which through the sky's deep azure floats along,
Like summer's quick'ning breath!
The ground is hollow in the path of mirth,
Oh! far too daring seems the joy of earth,
So darkly press'd and girdled in by death!