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Epeisodia

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I     Past the hills that peep     Where the leaze is smiling,     On and on beguiling     Crisply-cropping sheep;     Under boughs of brushwood     Linking tree and tree     In a shade of lushwood,     There caressed we! II     Hemmed by city walls     That outshut the sunlight,     In a foggy dun light,     Where the footstep falls     With a pit-pat wearisome     In its cadency     On the flagstones drearisome     There pressed we! III     Where in wild-winged crowds     Blown birds show their whiteness     Up against the lightness     Of the clammy clouds;     By the random river     Pushing to the sea,     Under bents that quiver     There rest we.

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