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By The Way

Verses, Fragments, and Notes [by William Allingham]

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Listless I wander'd down the wood arcades
Mid slender stems and sprouting leaflets green,
With primrose tufts and mingling violet,
Wild orchis and the wood-anemone
Around my feet; the wafting western air
As sweet as tho' it blew from Childhood's Land.