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gone and bright May has taken her place. Through this 

 break in the hedgerow let us softly slip over to the bench 

 yonder, where we see / V ^ f jl j 



" The hawthorne bush, with seats beneath the shade . 

 For talking age and whispering lovers made. " f 



Here's the day of good Queen Bess come back, sure as 

 ever was. Here are doughty lads and blushing maids, 

 harlequin hose and ribban'd braids, dark and fair and joy- 

 ous. Here are long-high hats and short-square hats and 

 ribban'd calves as well as braids, and the rich and pleasant 

 smell from the community cook stalls as of one great town- 

 ship-doughnut being browned for the common need in the 

 open. Now the old fiddler starts twanging away on a for- 

 gotten folk-dance and laughing and singing the motley 

 crowd spin away over the green. Times and places there 

 may have been when custom required that "Jack should 

 pipe and Jill should dance," but here the scene is a prettier 

 one for hand in hand, up the field and back again, they tread 

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" When the merry bells ring round. 

 And the jocund rebecks sound 

 To many a youth and many a maid 

 Dancing in the checkered shade; 

 And young and old come forth to play 



On a sunshine holyday. " _^:_ 



rv Elizabeth, royal daughter of Henry, Defender of the 

 Faith! Have you any doubt that if her gracious majesty 



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