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Rise like the morning air
And learn to blow again;
Tulip and rose are fair;
Play gently with their train;
Deep in the rosebuds heart
Learn how to stab thy dart.
Though ermine wraps thy breast,
Thou tremblest listlessly;
This way thou shiverest
Will nothing profit thee;
in the assembly learn
With love to shdke, and burn.
Faithless! thy heart astray
Once more upon Him bind;
Break from all else away,
Nor unto Self be blind;
Learn with thy eyes to view,
And how to close them, too.
Breath is a messenger,
Unheard its message told;
Thy dust a vision clear,
Yet thou canst not behold;
Learn once again to see,
And hearing get for thee!
No falcons heart of rage
We have, no eagles eye;
Like homebirds in a cage
We lack the joy to fly;
Homebirds encaged! arise,
And soar into the skies.
Darius royal throne
Men sell not by the way;
That mighty mount of stone
They barter not for hay;
Learn with thy own hearts blood
To purchase thee this good.
Thou weepst; yet Destiny
Unchanging doth abide;
The chain that circleth thee
Was aye as firmly tied;
Despair not, but anew
Learn how to weep for rue.
Art thou consumed? Take flame
Out of thy hearts desire
And wrap thee in the same,
And set the reeds afire;
Along the stubble learn
To run a torch, and burn!