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XXXIV.
Pleasant the swarm about the bough;
The meadow-whisper round the woods;
And for their coolness pleasant now
The murmur of the falling floods.
The meadow-whisper round the woods;
And for their coolness pleasant now
The murmur of the falling floods.
Pleasant beneath the thorn to lie
And let a summer fancy loose;
To hear the cuckoo's double cry;
To make the noontide sloth's excuse.
And let a summer fancy loose;
To hear the cuckoo's double cry;
To make the noontide sloth's excuse.
Panting, but pleased, the cattle stand
Knee-deep in water-weed and sedge
And scarcely crop that greener band
Of osiers round the river's edge.
Knee-deep in water-weed and sedge
And scarcely crop that greener band
Of osiers round the river's edge.
But hark! Far off the south wind sweeps
The golden-foliaged groves among
Renewed or lulled, with rests and leaps—
Ah! how it makes the spirit long
The golden-foliaged groves among
Renewed or lulled, with rests and leaps—
Ah! how it makes the spirit long
To drop its earthly weight and drift
Like yon white cloud, on pinions free
Beyond that Mountain's purple rift
And o'er that scintillating sea!
Like yon white cloud, on pinions free
Beyond that Mountain's purple rift
And o'er that scintillating sea!
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