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Forward again, and sometimes leaping high

With arms outspread as though he would embrace

In one act all the circle of the sky:

Sometimes he rested in a leafier place,

And crushed the wet, cool flowers against his face:

And once he cried aloud, “Oh world, oh day,

Let, let me,”—and then found no prayer to say.

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Up furrows still unpierced with earliest crop