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 And crowning other parts the wild white rose

Rivals the honey-suckle with the bees.

Above the old abandoned orchard shows

And all within beneath the dense-set trees,

Tall and luxuriant the rank grass grows,

That settled in its wavy depth one sees

Grass melt in leaves, the mossy trunks between,

Down fading avenues of implicated green;

Wherein no lack of flowers the verdurous night

With stars and pearly nebula o'erlay;

Azalea-boughs half rosy and half white

Shine through the green and clustering apple-spray,

Such as the fairy-queen before her knight

Waved in old story, luring him away

Where round lost isles Hesperian billows break

Or towers loom up beneath the clear, translucent lake;

And under the deep grass blue hare-bells hide,

And myrtle plots with dew-fall ever wet,

Gay tiger-lilies flammulate and pied,

Sometime on pathway borders neatly set,

Now blossom through the brake on either side,

Where heliotrope and weedy mignonette,

With vines in bloom and flower-bearing trees,

Mingle their incense all to swell the perfumed breeze,

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