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And, while the Thrush his home and food, Hails, as the flowering thorns unfold, And from its trunk of ebon wood, Rears Cytisus its floating gold;

The Lilac, whose tall head discloses Groups of such bright empurpled shade, And snow-globes form'd of elfin roses, Seem for exclusive beauty made:

Such too art thou; when light anew Above the eastern hill is seen, Thy buds, as fearful of the dew, Still wear their sheltering veil of green.