Song: The Holiday.
The world's great ways unclose Through little wooded hills: An air that stirs and stills, Dies sighing where it rose Or flies to sigh again In elms, whose stately rows Receive the summer rain, And clouds, clouds, clouds go by, A drifting cavalry, In squadrons that disperse And troops that reassemble And now they pass and now Their glittering wealth disburse On tufted grass a-tremble And lately leafing bough. Thus through the shining day We'll love or pass away Light hours in golden sleep, With clos'd half-sentient eyes And lids the light comes through, As sheep and flowers do Who no new toils devise, While shining insects creep About us where we lie Beneath a pleasant sky, In fields no trouble fills, Whence, as the traveller goes, The world's great ways unclose Through little wooded hills.
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