I
Rest me with Chinese colours,
For I think the glass is evil.
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Kung walked
by the dynastic temple
and into the cedar grove,
and then out by the lower river,
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For God, our God is a gallant foe
That playeth behind the veil.
I have loved my God as a child at heart
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No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.
I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness,
For my surrounding air hath a new lightness;
Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly
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For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:
Rain; empty river; a voyage,
Fire from frozen cloud, heavy rain in the twilight
Under the cabin roof was one lantern.
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It rests me to be among beautiful women
Why should one always lie about such matters?
I repeat:
It rests me to converse with beautiful women
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Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
For the priests and the gallows tree?
Aye lover he was of brawny men,
O' ships and the open sea.
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(From the early Anglo-Saxon text)
May I for my own self song's truth reckon,
Journey's jargon, how I in harsh days
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For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee
Dark-eyed,
O woman of my dreams,
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