Nor yet to draw one thought of ours to him.
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he butterfly and I had lit upon,Nevertheless, a message from the dawn. That made me hear the wakening birds around,And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground, And feel a spirit kindred to my own;So that henceforth I worked no more alone; But glad with him, I worked as with his aid,And weary, sought at noon with him the shade; And dreaming, as it were, held brotherly speechWith one whose thought I had not hoped to reach. "Men work together," I told him from the heart,"Whether they work together or apart."
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