and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap-Make ends meet

and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap

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They hear me not my later cadence singing, The souls to whom my earlier lays

and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap

I sang; Dispersed the throng, their severed flight now winging; Mute are the

and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap

voices that responsive rang. For stranger crowds the Orphean lyre now

and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap

stringing, E'en their applause is to my heart a pang; Of old who listened to my

song, glad hearted, If yet they live, now wander widely parted.

A yearning long unfelt, each impulse swaying, To yon calm spirit - realm

uplifts my soul; In faltering cadence, as when Zephyr playing, Fans the

Aeolian harp, my numbers roll; Tear follows tear, my steadfast heart obeying