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LOVERS IN THE WOODS

To summer Woods, alembics of hot scent,
We wend by moss and bracken, where the floods
Of sun-light filter through a leafy tent;
To summer Woods.
The wood-dove's coo goes forth from where she broods;
The insect hum drones ever on unspent;
The shadows alter with the long day's moods.
And all the elves that play at night have bent,

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From where they lurk beneath their mushroom hoods,
Wee roguish eyes on us, whom Love has sent
To summer Woods.
E.