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O WINDS! by JEAN ANDERSON

First Line: O WINDS OF THE COMPASS POINTS
Last Line: A LONELY HEART!
Subject(s): SOLITUDE; WIND; LONELINESS;

O winds of the compass points,
Yield me your rhythm,
Here on this hill
By moonlight and starlight,
That my simple lyric
Shall lift as it lightens
A lonely heart!



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