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62 "For, here are woods and green-hills warm:

"There surely must some reason be

"Why you would change sweet Liswyn farm

"For Kilve by the green sea."

At this, my boy hung down his head,

He blush'd with shame, nor made reply;

And five times to the child I said,

"Why, Edward, tell me, why?"

His head he raised—there was in sight,

It caught his eye, he saw it plain—

Upon the house-top, glittering bright,

A broad and gilded vane.

Then did the boy his tongue unlock,

And thus to me he made reply;

"At Kilve there was no weather-cock,

"And that's the reason why."