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BEACHY HEAD.


They heard him, as complaining of his fate,
And to the murmuring wind, of cold neglect
And baffled hope he told.—The peasant girls
These plaintive sounds remember, and even now
Among them may be heard the stranger's songs.






            Were I a Shepherd on the hill
                And ever as the mists withdrew
            Could see the willows of the rill
            Shading the footway to the mill
                Where once I walk'd with you—