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VI. A green and vaporous cloud of buds, the Larch

A green and vaporous cloud of buds, the Larch
Folds in soft drapery above the glade,

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Where deeper foliaged Pines high over-arch,
And dignify the heavy, stooping shade,
There yellow violets spring, in rarest show,
And golden rods in secret clusters blow.
There piping Hylas fill the helpless air,
And chattering Black-birds hold their gossip by,
And near I saw the tender maiden-hair,
With the fine, breeze-born, white anemone;
The Glade, though undisturbed by human art,
Has richer treasures than the busy mart.