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xxiv.

Oh, hide thy knotted knees in fern,

And overlook the chace;
And from thy topmost branch discern
The roofs of Sumner-place.

xxv.

But thou, whereon I carved her name,

That oft hast heard my vows,
Declare when last Olivia came
To sport beneath thy boughs.

xxvi.

"O yesterday, you know, the fair

Was holden at the town;
Her father left his good arm-chair,
And rode his hunter down.

xxvii.

"And with him Albert came on his.

I look'd at him with joy:
As cowslip unto oxlip is,
So seems she to the boy.