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The Barley Fields.

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The sunset has faded, there's but a tinge,          Saffron pale, where a star of white         Has tangled itself in the trailing fringe          Of the pearl-gray robe of the summer night.         O the green of the barley fields grows deep,          The breath of the barley fields grows rare;         There is rustle and glimmer, sway and sweep -          The wind is holding high revel there,         Singing the song it has often sung -          Hark to the troubadour glad and bold:         "Sweet is the earth when the summer is young          And the barley fields are green and gold!"

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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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