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To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
 Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find
 The perfumes thou dost bring?  
 Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find
 The perfumes thou dost bring? 
 The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut 
out in the awful storm!  
 The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut 
out in the awful storm! 
 The winds that never moderation knew,
 Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of read more 
 The winds that never moderation knew,
 Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
   Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge. 
 The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
 Like infant charity.  
 The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
 Like infant charity. 
 Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear
 Has grown familiar with your song;
  I hear it in read more 
 Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear
 Has grown familiar with your song;
  I hear it in the opening year,
   I listen, and it cheers me long. 
 The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves,
 Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives;
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 The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves,
 Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives;
  Over and over
   To the lowly clover
    He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too).
     He will be lisping and pledging to you. 
 An ill wind that bloweth no man good--
 The blower of which blast is she.  
 An ill wind that bloweth no man good--
 The blower of which blast is she. 
 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound 
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, read more 
 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound 
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it 
goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.