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I could have watched them till the daylight fled, Their pretty bower made such a light of day.
 * A small one tumbling sang, 'Oh! head!'
 * The rest to comfort her straightway

Seized on a branch and thumped down apples red. The tiny creature flashing through green grass, And laughing with her feet and eyes among
 * Fresh apples, while a little lass
 * Over as o'er breeze-ripples hung:

That sight I saw, and passed as aliens pass.

My footpath left the pleasant farms and lanes, Soft cottage-smoke, straight cocks a-crow, gay flowers
 * Beyond the wheel-ruts of the wains,
 * Across a heath I walked for hours,

And met its rival tenants, rays and rains.