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A PASTORAL
The last cow's milked, and Mary's free
To cool her face so warm;
She pats old Ginger tenderly
And lends her comely arm
To hoist the pail
Across the rail,
And foots it homeward to the farm.
To cool her face so warm;
She pats old Ginger tenderly
And lends her comely arm
To hoist the pail
Across the rail,
And foots it homeward to the farm.
The bodice of her dairy-dress
Is full of milk-white loveliness,
And in her cheek there vies
The wild rose with the snowdrop small
That makes a deeper blue of all
The violets in her eyes!
Is full of milk-white loveliness,
And in her cheek there vies
The wild rose with the snowdrop small
That makes a deeper blue of all
The violets in her eyes!
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With fearful hope and happy fear
She listens for Jock's tread,
And when his whistle proves him near
She does not turn her head
Because her face
May show the trace
Of love too great till she is wed!
She listens for Jock's tread,
And when his whistle proves him near
She does not turn her head
Because her face
May show the trace
Of love too great till she is wed!
The bodice of her dairy dress
Goes up and down in dear distress,
And in her conscious cheek
The snowdrop changes to a rose,
And in her eyes each violet shows
The love it cannot speak!
Goes up and down in dear distress,
And in her conscious cheek
The snowdrop changes to a rose,
And in her eyes each violet shows
The love it cannot speak!
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