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70 As if a sunbeam showed the place,

And tell its long-descended race.

It seemed as if the breezes brought him;

It seemed as if the sparrows taught him;

As if by secret sight he knew

Where, in far fields, the orchis grew.

Many haps fall in the field

Seldom seen by wishful eyes,

But all her shows did Nature yield,

To please and win this pilgrim wise.

He saw the partridge drum in the woods;

He heard the woodcock's evening hymn;

He found the tawny thrush's broods;

And the shy hawk did wait for him;

What others did at distance hear,

And guessed within the thicket's gloom,

Was showed to this philosopher,

And at his bidding seemed to come.

3.

In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers' gang,

Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang;