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In Woods And Meadows

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Play to the tender stops, though cheerily:      Gently, my soul, my song: let no one hear:     Sing to thyself alone; thine ecstasy      Rising in silence to the inward ear     That is attuned to silence: do not tell      A friend, a bird, a star, lest they should say -      He danced in woods and meadows all the day,     Waving his arms, and cried as evening fell,      'O, do not come,' and cried, 'O, come, thou queen,      And walk with me unwatched upon the green         Under the sky.'

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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