Something in me is lost, forever lost,
Some vital thing has gone out of my heart,
And I must walk the way of life a ghost
Among the sons of earth, a thing apart;
For I was born, far from my native clime,
Under the white man's menace, out of time.
(Outcast)
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Oh I love you so much, not recking of passion, that I feel it is wrong!
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Love words, mad words, dream words, sweet senseless words,
Melodious like notes of mating birds;
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