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TO L. R.
WITH A COPY OF ROBERT BRIDGES' ‘SHORTER POEMS’
Take, friend of all that's good and fair,
This book of daintiest verse,
And let each coy retirèd air
Its music rare rehearse.
This book of daintiest verse,
And let each coy retirèd air
Its music rare rehearse.
The silver Thames by summer kis't,
The rustling brakes of Spring
Or Autumn woods when gales are whist,
Such songs as these they sing.
The rustling brakes of Spring
Or Autumn woods when gales are whist,
Such songs as these they sing.
Such songs in England's flowering day
Made merry England brave,
From honied Chaucer shrewdly gay
To Wither blithely grave.
Made merry England brave,
From honied Chaucer shrewdly gay
To Wither blithely grave.
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