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honeysuckles, so they be somewhat afar off. Of 

 bean-flowers, I speak not, because they are field 

 flowers; but those which perfume the air most 

 delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but being 

 trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, 

 wild thyme, and water mints. Therefore you are to 

 set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you 

 walk or tread. 



I KNOW A BANK 



BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 



I KNOW a bank whereon the wild-thyme blows, 

 Where oxlips, and the nodding violet grows; 

 Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, 

 With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: 

 There sleeps Titania, some time of the night, 

 Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight; 

 And there the snake throws her enamePd skin, 

 Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in. 



LEAVES OF GRASS* 



BY WALT WHITMAN 



A CHILD said, What is the grass ? fetching it to me 



with full hands; 

 How could I answer the child ? I do not know what 



it is any more than he. 



* From " Leaves of Grass," etc., published by David McKay, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



