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The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune	A
Fitfully on the skylight and the shade	B
Of the fast flying clouds across my book	C
Passes with delicate change My merry fire	D
Sings cheerfully to itself my musing cat	E
Purrs as she wakes from her unquiet sleep	F
And looks into my face as if she felt	G
Like me the gentle influence of the rain	H
Here have I sat since morn reading sometimes	I
And sometimes listening to the faster fall	J
Of the large drops or rising with the stir	D
Of an unbidden thought have walked awhile	K
With the slow steps of indolence my room	L
And then sat down composedly again	M
To my quaint book of olden poetry	N
It is a kind of idleness I know	O
And I am said to be an idle man	P
And it is very true I love to go	O
Out in the pleasant sun and let my eye	Q
Rest on the human faces that pass by	Q
Each with its gay or busy interest	R
And then I muse upon their lot and read	S
Many a lesson in their changeful cast	T
And so grow kind of heart as if the sight	U
Of human beings were humanity	N
And I am better after it and go	O
More gratefully to my rest and feel a love	V
Stirring my heart to every living thing	W
And my low prayer has more humility	N
And I sink lightlier to my dreams and this	X
'Tis very true is only idleness	Y
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I love to go and mingle with the young	Z
In the gay festal room when every heart	A2
Is beating faster than the merry tune	A
And their blue eyes are restless and their lips	B2
Parted with eager joy and their round cheeks	C2
Flushed with the beautiful motion of the dance	D2
'Tis sweet in the becoming light of lamps	E2
To watch a brow half shaded or a curl	F2
Playing upon a neck capriciously	N
Or unobserved to watch in its delight	U
The earnest countenance of a child I love	V
To look upon such things and I can go	O
Back to my solitude and dream bright dreams	G2
For their fast coming years and speak of them	H2
Earnestly in my prayer till I am glad	I2
With a benevolent joy and this I know	O
To the world's eye is only idleness	Y
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And when the clouds pass suddenly away	J2
And the blue sky is like a newer world	K2
And the sweet growing things forest and flower	D
Humble and beautiful alike are all	J
Breathing up odors to the very heaven	L2
Or when the frost has yielded to the sun	L2
In the rich autumn and the filmy mist	M2
Lies like a silver lining on the sky	Q
And the clear air exhilarates and life	N2
Simply is luxury and when the hush	O2
Of twilight like a gentle sleep steals on	P2
And the birds settle to their nests and stars	Q2
Spring in the upper sky and there is not	R2
A sound that is not low and musical	S2
At all these pleasant seasons I go out	T2
With my first impulse guiding me and take	U2
Woodpath or stream or sunny mountain side	V2
And in my recklessness of heart stray on	P2
Glad with the birds and silent with the leaves	W2
And happy with the fair and blessed world	K2
And this 'tis true is only idleness	Y
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And I should love to go up to the sky	Q
And course the heaven like stars and float away	J2
Upon the gliding clouds that have no stay	J2
In their swift journey and 'twould be a joy	X2
To walk the chambers of the deep and tread	S
The pearls of its untrodden floor and know	O
The tribes of its unfathomable depths	Y2
Dwellers beneath the pressure of a sea	N
And I should love to issue with the wind	Z2
On a strong errand and o'ersweep the earth	A3
With its broad continents and islands green	B3
Like to the passing of a presence on	P2
And this 'tis true were only idleness	Y

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