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SONNET VI. THE TWO OAKS.
There are, among the leafy monarchs round,Trees loftier far than you, of ampler size,
And likelier to attract a stranger's eyes,
With sylvan honours more superbly crowned:
And yet in you a higher charm is found,
And purer—to our sweetest sympathies,
Than all that Nature's lavish hand supplies
To others—growing on this fairy ground.
Ye are mementos of a wedded pair,
Once wont this loved, familiar scene to tread!
Death, which has lowly laid one honoured head,
Has but conferred on YOU an added share
Of love and interest; since to us ye are
Memorials of the living! and the dead!
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