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Ο ΑΙΩΝ ΠΑΙΣ ΕΣΤΙ ΠΑΙΖΩΝ ΠΑΙΔΟΣ Η ΒΑΣΙΛΗΙΗ.
An orphan child lay in the purple glowOf sunset, on the hill where she had played
All day with heather-bells, nor marked the shade
Of night and autumn creeping from below.
A lonely lord came by and bade her go
And be his daughter, but she was afraid;
So he alone plunged down the pine-wood glade.
A cottage mother came with locks of snow,
And bade the motherless to board and bed;
She turned unheeded down a foxglove dell.
A nun came by on pilgrimage, who said,
“Come, dream of God and Heaven in cloister cell.”
The little one half raised her golden head,
Then stooped and plucked another heather-bell.
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