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“Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from one boot to another — why don’t you get going?

For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees.

And to tell the truth, I don’t want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don’t want to sell my life for money, I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.”