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your heart, cast off the bands

Imposed by social customs' care,

By laws of man. Be free as air—

Shake off those so-called friendly hands

That hold you back from following

The dictates Nature planted there,

List to her voice within your ear!

"Awake and love, it is the Spring."

My Love, awake. It is the Spring!

Let all the envious world roll by,

Above us bends the bright blue sky

Where mounts the lark on fluttering wing Rh