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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 rosebud’s 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 falcon’s heart of rage

We have, no eagle’s 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 heart’s blood

To purchase thee this good.

Thou weep’st; 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 heart’s desire

And wrap thee in the same,

And set the reeds afire;

Along the stubble learn

To run a torch, and burn!