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You'll never sing again
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And have you thought it over
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The sacrifice demanded
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The youth that you will lose
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Your beauty and your charms
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And your art to refuse
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All these gifts come from heaven
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In trust for you to share
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And should they be entombed
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In the gloom of daily care
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Or have you never heard
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When you have dreamed of praise
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Like all the forest leaves
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That the wind is caressing
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That soothing trembling roar
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Of the crowd round you pressing
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As they murmur your name
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And hold you with their gaze
:51:29
See there the burning joys
:51:32
Before the feet of beauty
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And these your youth in flower
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Is ready to abjure
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How commonplace the toys
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They'd force you to endure
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And children swarming round
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To call you back to duty