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A SKETCH.
The summer sun is stealing fast away,
And merry children join in noisy mirth;
Laughing and leaping in the golden ray,
The wildest and the gayest things of earth.

Fair forms are bounding rapidly about,
Light as the fairy imps in sylvan rings;
Drowning the blackbird's song with their wild shout,
And chasing down the moth with azure wings.

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