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LXXXI. THE SNOWDROPS BY ESTHWAITE LAKE.
When Winter from the seaward range is gone,By Esthwaite's shore is still a field of snow;
Thousands upon ten thousand snowdrops blow
In virgin sweet community as one,—
Type of the peace that dwells with God alone,
Emblems of angel-brotherhood below:
Their beauty every village child may know
From Hawkshead vale to grey-built Coniston.
Pure presences! The humblest truth's delight,
Even in springtide's natural innocence,
Must needs be sought, and plucked, and carried home:
And here old men and little children come,
Glad with a common hope, to bear from hence
What else had never made the fell-side cottage bright.
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