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Artist: Cosmo Sheldrake
Canonical path: /cosmo-sheldrake/the-fly
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The Fly
Read The Fly lyrics by Cosmo Sheldrake on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Fly
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Little fly
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away
Am I not
A fly like thee?
Or art thou not
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink, and sing
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing
If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death
Then I am
A happy fly
If I live
Or if I die
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Cosmo Sheldrake performs "The Fly", and this lyric page sits inside the Cosmo Sheldrake catalog on LyroVerse.
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