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Never
Walter de la Mare
'Take me, or leave me--I'm not thine,'
The fairy mocked on the sands of Lyne--
Frail as Phosphor over the sea:
'Seven long years shalt thou toil for me.'
Full seven I laboured, teen and tine:
But--'Take me, or leave me, I'm not thine!'
