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209 Stood, and from it's enormous breadth of shade

Chosen for the Shearer's covert from the sun,

Thence in our rustic dialect was call'd

The, a name which yet it bears.

There, while they two were sitting in the shade,

With others round them, earnest all and blithe,

Would Michael exercise his heart with looks

Of fond correction and reproof bestow'd

Upon the child, if he distarb'd the sheep

By catching at their legs, or with his shouts

Scar'd them, while they lay still beneath the shears.

And when by Heaven's good grace the Boy grew up

A healthy Lad, and carried in his cheek

Two steady roses that were five years old,

Then Michael from a winter coppice cut

With his own hand a sapling, which he hoop'd