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Sleep-Chasings.

I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her

in whom I lay so long,

I know not how I came of you, and I know not where

I go with you — but I know I came well, and shall go well.

58. I will stop only a time with the night, and rise betimes,

I will duly pass the day, my mother, and duly return to you.

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