Rise man a thousand mornings
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heard the tune he sang me,And spied his yellow bill; I picked a stone and aimed itAnd threw it with a will:Then the bird was still. A Shropshire Lad Then my soul within meTook up the blackbird’s strain,And still beside the horsesAlong the dewy laneIt sang the song again: ‘Lie down, lie down, young yeoman;The sun moves always west;
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