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OF THREE CHILDREN CHOOSING	A
A CHAPLET OF VERSE	B
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You and I and Burd so blithe	C
Burd so blithe and you and I	D
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The Mower he would whet his scythe	E
Before the dew was dry	D
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And he woke soon but we woke soon	F
And drew the nursery blind	G
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All wondering at the waning moon	F
With the small June roses twined	G
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Low in her cradle swung the moon	F
With an elfin dawn behind	G
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In whispers while our elders slept	H
We knelt and said our prayers	I
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And dress'd us and on tiptoe crept	H
Adown the creaking stairs	I
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The world's possessors lay abed	J
And all the world was ours	K
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'Nay nay but hark the Mower's tread	J
And we must save the flowers '	-
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The Mower knew not rest nor haste	L
That old unweary man	M
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But we were young We paused and raced	L
And gather'd while we ran	M
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O youth is careless youth is fleet	N
With heart and wing of bird	O
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The lark flew up beneath our feet	N
To his copse the pheasant whirr'd	N
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The cattle from their darkling lairs	K
Heaved up and stretch'd themselves	K
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Almost they trod at unawares	K
Upon the busy elves	K
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That dropp'd their spools of gossamer	P
To dangle and to dry	D
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And scurried home to the hollow fir	P
Where the white owl winks an eye	D
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Nor you nor I nor Burd so blithe	C
Had driven them in this haste	N
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But the old old man so lean and lithe	C
That afar behind us paced	N
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So lean and lithe with shoulder'd scythe	E
And a whetstone at his waist	N
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Within the gate in a grassy round	N
Whence they had earliest flown	Q
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He upside down'd his scythe and ground	N
Its edge with careful hone	Q
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But we heeded not if we heard the sound	N
For the world was ours alone	Q
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The world was ours and with a bound	N
The conquering Sun upshone	Q
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And while as from his level ray	R
We stood our eyes to screen	Q
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The world was not as yesterday	R
Our homelier world had been	Q
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So grey and golden green it lay	R
All in his quiet sheen	Q
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That wove the gold into the grey	R
The grey into the green	Q
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Sure never hand of Puck nor wand	N
Of Mab the fairies' queen	Q
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Nor prince nor peer of fairyland	N
Had power to weave that wide riband	N
Of the grey the gold the green	Q
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But the Gods of Greece had been before	S
And walked our meads along	T
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The great authentic Gods of yore	S
That haunt the earth from shore to shore	S
Trailing their robes of song	T
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And where a sandall'd foot had brush'd	N
And where a scarfed hem	U
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The flowers awoke from sleep and rush'd	N
Like children after them	U
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Pell mell they poured by vale and stream	V
By lawn and steepy brae	R
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'O children children while you dream	V
Your flowers run all away '	-
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But afar and abed and sleepily	W
The children heard us call	X
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And Burd so blithe and you and I	D
Must be gatherers for all	X
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The meadow sweet beside the hedge	Y
The dog rose and the vetch	Z
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The sworded iris 'mid the sedge	Y
The mallow by the ditch	Z
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With these and by the wimpling burn	Q
Where the midges danced in reels	K
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With the watermint and the lady fern	Q
We brimm'd out wicker creels	K
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Till all so heavily they weigh'd	N
On a bank we flung us down	Q
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Shook out our treasures 'neath the shade	N
And wove this Triple Crown	Q
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Flower after flower for some there were	P
The noonday heats had dried	N
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And some were dear yet could not bear	A2
A lovelier cheek beside	N
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And some were perfect past compare	A2
Ah darlings what a world of care	A2
It cost us to decide	N
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Natheless we sang in sweet accord	N
Each bending o'er her brede	N
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'O there be flowers in Oxenford	N
And flowers be north of Tweed	N
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And flowers there be on earthly sward	N
That owe no mortal seed '	-
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And these the brightest that we wove	B2
Were Innocence and Truth	C2
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And holy Peace and angel Love	D2
Glad Hope and gentle Ruth	C2
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Ah bind them fast with triple twine	Q
Of Memory the wild woodbine	Q
That still being human stays divine	Q
And alone is age's youth	C2
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But hark but look the warning rook	E2
Wings home in level flight	N
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The children tired with play and book	E2
Have kiss'd and call'd Good night	N
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Ah sisters look What fields be these	K
That lie so sad and shorn	Q
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What hand has cut our coppices	K
And thro' the trimm'd the ruin'd trees	K
Lets wail a wind forlorn	Q
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'Tis Time 'tis Time has done this crime	F2
And laid our meadows waste	N
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The bent unwearied tyrant Time	F2
That knows nor rest nor haste	N
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Yet courage children homeward bring	A
Your hearts your garlands high	D
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For we have dared to do a thing	A
That shall his worst defy	D
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We cannot nail the dial's hand	N
We cannot bind the sun	Q
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By Gibeon to stay and stand	N
Or the moon o'er Ajalon	Q
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We cannot blunt th' abhorred shears	K
Nor shift the skeins of Fate	N
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Nor say unto the posting years	K
'Ye shall not desolate '	-
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We cannot cage the lion's rage	G2
Nor teach the turtle dove	D2
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Beside what well his moan to tell	H2
Or to haunt one only grove	B2
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But the lion's brood will range for food	N
As the fledged bird will rove	B2
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And east and west we three may wend	N
Yet we a wreath have wound	N
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For us shall wind withouten end	N
The wide wide world around	N
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Be it east or west and ne'er so far	I2
In east or west shall peep no star	I2
No blossom break from ground	N
But minds us of the wreath we wove	B2
Of innocence and holy love	D2
That in the meads we found	N
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And handsell'd from the Mower's scythe	E
And bound with memory's living withe	E
You and I and Burd so blithe	C
Three maidens on a mound	N
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And all of happiness was ours	K
Shall find remembrance 'mid the flowers	K
Shall take revival from the flowers	K
And by the flowers be crown'd	N