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"It was May before my attention came to spring and my word I said to the southern slopes I've missed it, it came and went before I got right"

"This is just a place: we go around, distanced, yearly in a star's atmosphere, turning daily into and out of direct light and slanting through"

"The saints are gathering at the real places, trying tough skin on sharp conscience, endurance in the hot spots- searching out to define, come up"

"The drop seeps whole from boulder-lichen or ledge moss and drops, joining, to trickle, run, fall, dash, sprawl in held deeps, to rush shallows"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"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"