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I cannot write old verses here,         Dead things a thousand years away,     When all the life of the young year         Is in the summer day.     The roses make the world so sweet,         The bees, the birds have such a tune,     There's such a light and such a heat         And such a joy this June,     One must expand one's heart with praise,         And make the memory secure     Of sunshine and the woodland days         And summer twilights pure.     Oh listen rather! Nature's song         Comes from the waters, beating tides,     Green-margined rivers, and the throng         Of streams on mountain-sides.     So fair those water-spirits are,         Such happy strength their music fills,     Our joy shall be to wander far         And find them on the hills.

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