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I leaned upon the rustic bridge	A
And watched the streamlet make	B
Its chattering way past zigzag ridge	A
Down to the silent lake	B
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The sunlight flickered on the wave	C
Lay quiet on the hill	D
Italian sunshine bright and brave	C
Though 'twas but April still	D
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I heard the distant shepherd's shout	E
I heard the fisher's call	F
The lizards glistened in and out	E
Along the crannied wall	F
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Hard by in rudely frescoed niche	G
Hung Christ upon the tree	H
Round Him the Maries knelt and each	I
Was weeping bitterly	H
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A nightingale from out the trees	J
Rippled and then was dumb	K
But in the golden bays the bees	J
Kept up a constant hum	K
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Two peasant women of the land	L
Barefoot with tresses black	M
Came slowly toward me from the strand	L
With their burdens on their back	M
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Two wicker crates with linen piled	N
Just newly washed and wrung	O
And close behind a little child	N
That made the morning young	O
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Reaching the bridge each doffed her load	P
Resting before they clomb	K
Along the stony twisting road	P
Up to their mountain home	K
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Shortly the child just half its height	Q
Stooped 'neath her mother's pack	M
And strove and strove with all her might	Q
To lift it on her back	M
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Thereat my heart began to smile	R
Haply I speak their tongue	O
Can you '' I said not wait awhile	R
You won't be always young	O
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Why long to share the toil you see	H
Why hurry on the years	S
When life will one long season be	H
Of labour and of tears	T
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Be patient with your childhood Work	U
Will come full soon enough	V
From year to year from morn till murk	U
Life will be hard and rough	V
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And yours will grow and haply I	W
Revisiting this shore	X
In years to come will see and sigh	W
You are a child no more	X
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Yours then will be the moil the heat	Y
Yours be the strain and stress	Z
Pray Heaven Love then attend your feet	Y
To make life's burden less ''	-
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Thus as I spoke with steadfast stare	A2
She clung between the two	B2
Scarce understanding yet aware	A2
That the sad words were true	B2
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Down from the mother's face a tear	A2
Fell to her naked feet	Y
But now unto the Signor dear	C2
Your poesy repeat ''	-
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Without demur the little maid	D2
Spread out her palms and lo	E2
From lips that lisped yet unafraid	D2
Sweet verse began to flow	E2
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She told the story that we all	F
Learn at our mother's knee	H
Of Eve's transgression Adam's fall	F
And Heaven's great clemency	H
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How Jesus was by Mary's hands	F2
In the rough manger laid	D2
And by rich Kings from far off lands	F2
Was pious homage paid	D2
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Then how though cruel Herod slew	B2
The suckling babes and thought	G2
To baffle God Christ lived and grew	B2
And in the temple taught	G2
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She raised her hands to suit the rhyme	K
She clasped them on her heart	H2
There never lived the city mime	K
So well had played the part	H2
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When she broke off I was too choked	I2
With tenderness to speak	J2
And so her little form I stroked	I2
And kissed her on the cheek	J2
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And took a sweetmeat that I had	K2
And put it in her mouth	L2
O then she danced like a stream that's glad	K2
When it hurries to the south	L2
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She danced she skipped she kissed good bye ''	-
She frolicked round and round	M2
The pair resumed their packs and I	W
Sate rooted to the ground	M2
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A rivederla '' Then the three	H
Went winding up the hill	D
Ah they have long forgotten me	H
But I remember still	D

Alfred Austin

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