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CANTO SECOND.

Harp in lowliness obeyed: And first we sang of the green-wood shade, And a solitary Maid; Beginning, where the song must end, With her, and with her sylvan Friend; The friend who stood before her sight, Her only unextinguished light,— Her last companion in a dearth Of love, upon a hopeless earth.