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| you repay me for my
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| Not these
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| City of my walks and joys! |
| City whom that I have lived |
| and sung there will one day |
| make you illustrious! |
| Not the infinite pageants of |
| you—Not your shifting |
| tableaux, your spectacles, |
| repay me. |
| Not the interminable rows of |
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converse with educated and
eminent
learned
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| fashionable
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learned
persons, or bear |
| my share in the soirèe, or |
| feast, or discu in politics, |
| But as I pass, the ^
frequent and swift flash |
| of eyes, speaking
offering
offering
me |
| delicious
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athletic
love fresh as nature's air and herbage— —offering me |
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| my my own, |
| These repay me—Lovers, ^
continual Lovers |
| continu only repay me.— |
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[In the garden]
| In a
the
garden, the world, I, a new Adam, |
| again wander, |
| Curious, here behold my resurrection |
| after ages of dea slumber, |
| The revolving mighty cycles, in their mighty
wide
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| sweep, have again brought |
| me.—I have returned
return
, for
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| awhile, the same, |
| All is beautiful to me—all is |
| wondrous—I am myself |
| most wondrous, |
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The
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All is
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I have con
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The
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| I exist, I peer and |
| penetrate, still, |
| By my side following Eve,—and following, |
| I and I following her wherso
in turn
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| ever she goes, just |
| the same, |
| Content with the present, content with the |
| past.
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