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I	A
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How sweet on sunny afternoons	B
For those who journey light and well	C
To loiter up a hilly rise	D
Which hides the prospect far beyond	E
And fancy all the landscape lying	F
Beautiful and still	G
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Beneath a sky of summer blue	H
Whose rounded cloudlets folded soft	I
Gaze on the scene which we await	J
And picture from their peacefulness	K
So calmly to the earth inclining	F
Float those loving shapes	L
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Like airy brides each singling out	M
A spot to love and bless with love	N
Their creamy bosoms glowing warm	O
Till distance weds them to the hills	P
And with its latest gleam the river	Q
Sinks in their embrace	R
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And silverly the river runs	S
And many a graceful wind he makes	T
By fields where feed the happy flocks	U
And hedge rows hushing pleasant lanes	V
The charms of English home reflected	W
In his shining eye	A
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Ancestral oak broad foliaged elm	X
Rich meadows sunned and starred with flowers	Y
The cottage breathing tender smoke	F
Against the brooding golden air	Z
With glimpses of a stately mansion	A2
On a woodland sward	B2
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And circling round as with a ring	F
The distance spreading amber haze	C2
Enclosing hills and pastures sweet	D2
A depth of soft and mellow light	E2
Which fills the heart with sudden yearning	F
Aimless and serene	F2
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No disenchantment follows here	G2
For nature's inspiration moves	H2
The dream which she herself fulfils	H2
And he whose heart like valley warmth	I2
Steams up with joy at scenes like this	H2
Shall never be forlorn	J2
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And O for any human soul	K2
The rapture of a wide survey	L2
A valley sweeping to the West	M2
With all its wealth of loveliness	H2
Is more than recompense for days	H2
That taught us to endure	N2
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II	A
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Yon upland slope which hides the sun	A2
Ascending from his eastern deeps	H2
And now against the hues of dawn	O2
One level line of tillage rears	H2
The furrowed brow of toil and time	P2
To many it is but a sweep of land	Q2
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To others 'tis an Autumn trust	R2
But unto me a mystery	S2
An influence strange and swift as dreams	H2
A whispering of old romance	H2
A temple naked to the clouds	H2
Or one of nature's bosoms fresh revealed	T2
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Heaving with adoration there	Z
The work of husbandry is done	A2
And daily bread is daily earned	U2
Nor seems there ought to indicate	J
The springs which move in me such thoughts	H2
But from my soul a spirit calls them up	V2
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All day into the open sky	A
All night to the eternal stars	H2
For ever both at morn and eve	W2
Men mellow distances draw near	X2
And shadows lengthen in the dusk	F
Athwart the heavens it rolls its glimmering line	Y2
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When twilight from the dream hued West	M2
Sighs hush and all the land is still	G
When from the lush empurpling East	Z2
The twilight of the crowing cock	F
Peers on the drowsy village roofs	H2
Athwart the heavens that glimmering line is seen	F2
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And now beneath the rising sun	A2
Whose shining chariot overpeers	H2
The irradiate ridge while fetlock deep	A3
In the rich soil his coursers plunge	B3
How grand in robes of light it looks	H2
How glorious with rare suggestive grace	H2
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The ploughman mounting up the height	E2
Becomes a glowing shape as though	C3
'Twere young Triptolemus plough in hand	Q2
While Ceres in her amber scarf	D3
With gentle love directs him how	E3
To wed the willing earth and hope for fruits	H2
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The furrows running up are fraught	F3
With meanings there the goddess walks	H2
While Proserpine is young and there	Z
'Mid the late autumn sheaves her voice	H2
Sobbing and choked with dumb despair	Z
The nights will hear her wailing for her child	G3
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Whatever dim tradition tells	H2
Whatever history may reveal	H3
Or fancy from her starry brows	H2
Of light or dreamful lustre shed	I3
Could not at this sweet time increase	H2
The quiet consecration of the spot	J3
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Blest with the sweat of labour blest	M2
With the young sun's first vigorous beams	H2
Village hope and harvest prayer	Z
The heart that throbs beneath it holds	H2
A bliss so perfect in itself	K3
Men's thoughts must borrow rather than bestow	C3
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III	A
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Now standing on this hedgeside path	L3
Up which the evening winds are blowing	F
Wildly from the lingering lines	H2
Of sunset o'er the hills	H2
Unaided by one motive thought	F3
My spirit with a strange impulsion	A2
Rises like a fledgling	F
Whose wings are not mature but still	G
Supported by its strong desire	Q
Beats up its native air and leaves	H2
The tender mother's nest	M2
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Great music under heaven is made	M3
And in the track of rushing darkness	H2
Comes the solemn shape of night	E2
And broods above the earth	N3
A thing of Nature am I now	A2
Abroad without a sense or feeling	F
Born not of her bosom	O3
Content with all her truths and fates	H2
Ev'n as yon strip of grass that bows	H2
Above the new born violet bloom	P3
And sings with wood and field	T2
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IV	K3
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Lo as a tree whose wintry twigs	H2
Drink in the sun with fibrous joy	Q3
And down into its dampest roots	H2
Thrills quickened with the draught of life	K3
I wake unto the dawn and leave my griefs to drowse	H2
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I rise and drink the fresh sweet air	Z
Each draught a future bud of Spring	F
Each glance of blue a birth of green	A2
I will not mimic yonder oak	F
That dallies with dead leaves ev'n while the primrose peeps	H2
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But full of these warm whispering beams	H2
Like Memnon in his mother's eye	A
Aurora when the statue stone	A2
Moaned soft to her pathetic touch	R3
My soul shall own its parent in the founts of day	L2
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And ever in the recurring light	E2
True to the primal joy of dawn	A2
Forget its barren griefs and aye	A
Like aspens in the faintest breeze	H2
Turn all its silver sides and tremble into song	F
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V	K3
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Now from the meadow floods the wild duck clamours	H2
Now the wood pigeon wings a rapid flight	E2
Now the homeward rookery follows up its vanguard	S3
And the valley mists are curling up the hills	H2
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Three short songs gives the clear voiced throstle	G
Sweetening the twilight ere he fills the nest	M2
While the little bird upon the leafless branches	H2
Tweets to its mate a tiny loving note	T3
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Deeper the stillness hangs on every motion	A2
Calmer the silence follows every call	G
Now all is quiet save the roosting pheasant	U3
The bell wether's tinkle and the watch dog's bark	F
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Softly shine the lights from the silent kindling homestead	I3
Stars of the hearth to the shepherd in the fold	V3
Springs of desire to the traveller on the roadway	L2
Ever breathing incense to the ever blessing sky	A
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VI	A
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How barren would this valley be	K3
Without the golden orb that gazes	H2
On it broadening to hues	H2
Of rose and spreading wings of amber	Q
Blessing it before it falls asleep	A3
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How barren would this valley be	K3
Without the human lives now beating	F
In it or the throbbing hearts	H2
Far distant who their flower of childhood	W3
Cherish here and water it with tears	H2
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How barren should I be were I	A
Without above that loving splendour	Q
Shedding light and warmth without	M
Some kindred natures of my kind	X3
To joy in me or yearn towards me now	A2
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VII	A
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Summer glows warm on the meadows and speedwell and gold cups and daisies	H2
Darken 'mid deepening masses of sorrel and shadowy grasses	H2
Show the ripe hue to the farmer and summon the scythe and the hay makers	H2
Down from the village and now even now the air smells of the mowing	F
And the sharp song of the scythe whistles daily from dawn till the gloaming	F
Wears its cool star sweet and welcome to all flaming faces afield now	A2
Heavily weighs the hot season and drowses the darkening foliage	Y3
Drooping with languor the white cloud floats but sails not for windless	H2
Heaven's blue tents it no lark singing up in its fleecy white valleys	H2
Up in its fairy white valleys once feathered with minstrels melodious	H2
With the invisible joy that wakes dawn o'er the green fields of England	Z3
Summer glows warm on the meadows then come let us roam thro' them gaily	K3
Heedless of heat and the hot kissing sun and the fear of dark freckles	H2
Never one kiss will he give on a neck or a lily white forehead	I3
Chin hand or bosom uncovered all panting to take the chance coolness	H2
But full sure the fiery pressure leaves seal of espousal	K3
Heed him not come tho' he kiss till the soft little upper	Q