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JAMES STEPHENS  I didn't listen to him, For he didn't sing to me That the dew was on the lawn, And the wind was on the lea! I was singing at the time, Just as prettily as he!

I was singing all the time, Just as prettily as he, About the dew upon the lawn, And the wind upon the lea! So I didn't listen to him, As he sang upon a tree!

JAMES ELROY FLECKER 1884–1919 954

IGH 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.

O 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.

955

OW splendid in the morning glows the lily; with what grace he throws His supplication to the rose: do roses nod the head, Yasmin? 1129