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NOOK OF BEAUTY.
Suggested by a New Hampshire view from the gifted pencil of W. H. Hilliard.
I.
Here is a lovely scene,A nook of summer beauty 'mid the hills,
Tuneful with wind-swept pines, and silver rills,
While, clothed in living green,
Are pastures where the lowing cattle graze,
And distance mellowed to a purple haze.
II.
Kine quaffing from the streamStand with their shadows on the water flung;
A brighter summer dream
Was never sketched by Art, by poet sung;
One, who thus dips his brush in Nature's hues,
Commands the homage of the Poet's muse.
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III.
Young Artist! study wellThe matchless scenery of my native vale,
Its cataracts that thunder on the gale,
Lawn, breezy hill, and dell;
Go where the Genesee to run his course
Leaps pure, and mountain born, with youthful force.
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