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IN FRENCH FIELDS.
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The traveller that the shade would gain
May here repose securely,
The steed, when hungry, may attain
The crisp new foliage surely.

I love the willow's mossy trunk
That bends beside the river!
Sprays veil its shoulders rough and shrunk,
And o'er the waters quiver.