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BEACHY HEAD.



            The slender birch its paper rind
                Seems offering to divided love,
            And shuddering even without a wind
                Aspins, their paler foliage move,
            As if some spirit of the air
            Breath'd a low sigh in passing there.

            The Squirrel in his frolic mood,
                Will fearless bound among the boughs;
            Yaffils laugh loudly thro' the wood,
                And murmuring ring-doves tell their vows;
            While we, as sweetest woodscents rise,
            Listen to woodland melodies.