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Love's Landmarks

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The woods we used to walk, my love,         Are woods no more,     But' villas' now with sounding names -         All name and door.     The pond, where, early on in March,         The yellow cup     Of water-lilies made us glad,         Is now filled up.     But ah! what if they fill or fell         Each pond, each tree,     What matters it to-day, my love,         To me - to thee?     The jerry-builder may consume,         A greedy moth,     God's mantle of the living green,         I feel no wrath;     Eat up the beauty of the world,         And gorge his fill     On mead and winding country lane,         And grassy hill.     I only laugh, for now of these         I have no care,     Now that to me the fair is foul,         And foul as fair.

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