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37 And, close beside this aged Thorn,

There is a fresh and lovely sight,

A beauteous heap, a Hill of moss,

Just half a foot in height.

All lovely colours there you see,

All colours that were ever seen;

And mossy net-work too is there,

As if by hand of lady fair

The work had woven been;

And cups, the darlings of the eye,

So deep is their vermilion dye.

Ah me! what lovely tints are there!

Of olive green and scarlet bright,

In spikes, in branches, and in stars,

Green, red, and pearly white.

This heap of earth o'ergrown with moss,

Which close beside the Thorn you see,

So fresh in all its beauteous dyes,

Is like an infant's grave in size,

As like as like can be:

But never, never any where,

An infant's grave was half so fair.