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Maud Muller on a summer's day	A
Raked the meadow sweet with hay	A
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Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth	B
Of simple beauty and rustic health	B
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Singing she wrought and her merry gleee	C
The mock bird echoed from his tree	D
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But when she glanced to the far off town	E
White from its hill slope looking down	E
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The sweet song died and a vague unrest	F
And a nameless longing filled her breast	F
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A wish that she hardly dared to own	G
For something better than she had known	G
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The Judge rode slowly down the lane	H
Smoothing his horse's chestnut mane	H
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He drew his bridle in the shade	I
Of the apple trees to greet the maid	I
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And asked a draught from the spring that flowed	J
Through the meadow across the road	J
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She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up	K
And filled for him her small tin cup	K
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And blushed as she gave it looking down	E
On her feet so bare and her tattered gown	E
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Thanks said the Judge a sweeter draught	L
From a fairer hand was never quaffed	L
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He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees	M
Of the singing birds and the humming bees	M
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Then talked of the haying and wondered whether	N
The cloud in the west would bring foul weather	N
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And Maud forgot her brier torn gown	E
And her graceful ankles bare and brown	E
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And listened while a pleased surprise	O
Looked from her long lashed hazel eyes	O
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At last like one who for delay	C
Seeks a vain excuse he rode away	C
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Maud Muller looked and sighed Ah me	D
That I the Judge's bride might be	D
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He would dress me up in silks so fine	P
And praise and toast me at his wine	P
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My father should wear a broadcloth coat	L
My brother should sail a pointed boat	L
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I'd dress my mother so grand and gay	C
And the baby should have a new toy each day	C
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And I'd feed the hungry and clothe the poor	Q
And all should bless me who left our door	R
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The Judge looked back as he climbed the hill	C
And saw Maud Muller standing still	C
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A form more fair a face more sweet	L
Ne'er hath it been my lot to meet	L
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And her modest answer and graceful air	S
Show her wise and good as she is fair	S
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Would she were mine and I to day	C
Like her a harvester of hay	C
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No doubtful balance of rights and wrongs	T
Nor weary lawyers with endless tongues	U
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But low of cattle and song of birds	V
And health and quiet and loving words	V
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But he thought of his sisters proud and cold	L
And his mother vain of her rank and gold	L
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So closing his heart the Judge rode on	W
And Maud was left in the field alone	G
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But the lawyers smiled that afternoon	X
When he hummed in court an old love tune	X
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And the young girl mused beside the well	C
Till the rain on the unraked clover fell	C
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He wedded a wife of richest dower	Y
Who lived for fashion as he for power	N
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Yet oft in his marble hearth's bright glow	C
He watched a picture come and go	C
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And sweet Maud Muller's hazel eyes	O
Looked out in their innocent surprise	O
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Oft when the wine in his glass was red	L
He longed for the wayside well instead	L
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And closed his eyes on his garnished rooms	Z
To dream of meadows and clover blooms	Z
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And the proud man sighed and with a secret pain	H
Ah that I were free again	A2
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Free as when I rode that day	C
Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay	C
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She wedded a man unlearned and poor	Q
And many children played round her door	R
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But care and sorrow and childbirth pain	H
Left their traces on heart and brain	H
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And oft when the summer sun shone hot	L
On the new mown hay in the meadow lot	L
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And she heard the little spring brook fall	C
Over the roadside through a wall	C
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In the shade of the apple tree again	A2
She saw a rider draw his rein	H
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And gazing down with timid grace	B2
She felt his pleased eyes read her face	B2
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Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls	C2
Stretched away into stately halls	C2
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The weary wheel to a spinet turned	L
The tallow candle an astral burned	L
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And for him who sat by the chimney lug	D2
Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug	D2
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A manly form at her side she saw	E2
And joy was duty and love was law	E2
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Then she took up her burden of life again	A2
Saying only It might have been	F2
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Alas for the maiden alas for the Judge	G2
For rich repiner and househole drudge	G2
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God pity them both and pity us all	C
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall	C
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen	A2
The saddest are these It might have been	F2
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Ah well for us all some sweet hope lies	O
Deeply buried from human eyes	O
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And in the hereafter angels may	C
Roll the stone from its grave away	C

John Greenleaf Whittier

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