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Of bees, and plant a sweetbriar by the stand. Around, the country should be pleasant fields, Corn and green meadows, and their hedges rich With the luxuriant May and wilding rose; And in the summer time wood strawberries, Mixed with the azure bird's-eye at their roots. Away, yet still the village should be seen Visible, peeping from the tall elm trees, With its white church and sunset-gilded spire. And there should be a little brook, o'erhung With graceful willows, and the water lily Upon its calm cold surface; and at noon Its ripple would come musical and low, Mixed with the wood-dove's plaining to her mate. I could be happy any where with thee! But this, dear love!—this would be Paradise! L. E. L.