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Ah! no, no, it is nothing, surely nothing-at all,

Only the wild-going wind round by the garden-wall,

For the dawn just now is breaking, the wind beginning to fall.

''Wind, wind! thou art sad, art thou kind?''

''Wind, wind, unhappy! thou art blind,''

Yet still thou wanderest the lily-seed to find.

So I will sit, and think and think of the days gone by,

Never moving my chair for fear the dogs should cry,

Making no noise at all while the flambeau burns awry.

For my chair is heavy and carved, and with sweeping green behind

It is hung, and the dragons thereon grin out in the gusts of the wind;

On its folds an orange lies, with a deep gash cut in the rind.

''Wind, wind! thou art sad, art thou kind?''

Wind, wind, unhappy I thou art blind,

Yet still thou wanderest the lily-seed to find.

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