What chains shackle hope to the joys of another,
But inure my soul to the state I there find?
What tear driven dreams bear the faith of no other?
Such shattered thoughts wrestle my bewildered mind.
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Eating, rotting, wretched and despised,
Taken slowly from arms.
All cherished things gone.
Why not take clothes,
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Profess! In these give fortunes seldom chance,
when words aver with love's last whispered power,
that wonted life give fear over romance,
and shames ignite each hell's forbidden hour.
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Beyond the valley far below,
Where glory of a spring's fell bloom
Did flourish as wild flowers know
Such music heard from lovers' room: -
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So long it seems, since music played euphonic chords for passion's muse,
Composed that true loves' words should wear, and gentle souls amuse;
For evermore those songs would bear the notes I'll never use.
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Of fairest winds unheard but for your sighs,
Of moons not held to reach your gentle hand,
'Twixt glimpses caught within our star-filled eyes,
The dreams we shared, we didn't understand.
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Sing still, O dream! My angel o'er my mind,
Of happiness that sorrow's muse concealed;
Of wings these broken dreams have left behind.
A promise wrought of life we dared not find,
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No hope nor dream did yield its fruit while others reigned above it;
Whose masters deemed to crush the will of those who dared not love it.
The farce that we would call 'free will' - the will to do as told:
No choice to live this - my own life - in unchained hands to hold.
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Tho' losses long pushed man to drink,
For reading loud his slip of pink,
Despaired he not, but paused to think,
Aye you'll agree:
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If I could fly away with you I would:
We'd breach the sky beyond where currents flow,
Above the highest nimbus ever stood,
I'd fly you where all tear drops turn to snow.
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