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 Rioupéroux


 * High and solemn mountains guard Rioupéroux,
 * —Small untidy village where the river drives a mill:
 * Frail as wood anemones, white and frail were you,
 * And drooping a little, like the slender daffodil.


 * Oh I will go to France again, and tramp the valley through,
 * And I will change these gentle clothes for clog and corduroy,
 * And work with the mill-hands of black Rioupéroux,
 * And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy.

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