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by Unknown

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TO THE EVENING ZEPHYR.[¹]

ALICE CARY.

[¹] Copyright, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

SIT where the wild-bee is humming,

And listen in vain for thy song;

I’ve waited before for thy coming,

But never, oh, never so long!

How oft with the blue sky above us,