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. I have been over the joyous earth, When the blushing morning gave daylight birth: The boughs and the grass were sown with pearls, As an Eastern queen had unbound her curls, And shower'd their tresses o'er leaf and flower; And then I saw how the noontide hour Kiss'd them away, as if the sun Touch'd all with joy that it shone upon. I saw a crimson rose, like an urn Wherein a thousand odours burn; It grew in the shade, but the place was bright With the glory and glow of its fragrant light.