The Fly

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1. Little Fly,
2. Thy summer’s play
3. My thoughtless hand
4. Has brushed away.
5.  
6. Am not I
7. A fly like thee?
8. Or art not thou
9. A man like me?
10.  
11. For I dance,
12. And drink, and sing,
13. Till some blind hand
14. Shall brush my wing.
15.  
16. If thought is life
17. And strength and breath,
18. And the want
19. Of thought is death;
20.  
21. Then am I
22. A happy fly.
23. If I live,
24. Or if I die.