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What saw you in your flight to-day, Crows, awinging your homeward way?

Went you far in carrion quest, Crows, that worry the sunless west?

Thieves and villains, you shameless things! Black your record as black your wings.

Tell me, birds of the inky hue, Plunderous rogues—to-day have you

Seen with mischievous, prying eyes Lands where earlier suns arise?

Saw you a lazy beck between Trees that shadow its breast in green,

Teased by obstinate stones that lie Crossing the current tauntingly?

Fields abloom on the farther side With purpling clover lying wide—

Saw you there as you circled by, Vale-environed a cottage lie,