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Deer

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Shy in their herding dwell the fallow deer.     They are spirits of wild sense. Nobody near     Comes upon their pastures. There a life they live,     Of sufficient beauty, phantom, fugitive     Treading as in jungles free leopards do,     Printless as evelight, instant as dew.     The great kine are patient, and home-coming sheep     Know our bidding. The fallow deer keep     Delicate and far their counsels wild,     Never to be folded reconciled     To the spoiling hand as the poor flocks are;     Lightfoot, and swift, and unfamiliar,     These you may not hinder, unconfined     Beautiful flocks of the mind.

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"Shy in their herding dwell the fallow deer...."

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