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To A Pastoral Poet.

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(H. E. B.)     Among my best I put your Book,     O Poet of the breeze and brook!     (That breeze and brook which blows and falls     More soft to those in city walls)     Among my best: and keep it still     Till down the fair grass-girdled hill,     Where slopes my garden-slip, there goes     The wandering wind that wakes the rose,     And scares the cohort that explore     The broad-faced sun-flower o'er and o'er,     Or starts the restless bees that fret     The bindweed and the mignonette.     Then I shall take your Book, and dream     I lie beside some haunted stream;     And watch the crisping waves that pass,     And watch the flicker in the grass;     And wait--and wait--and wait to see     The Nymph ... that never comes to me!

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