SWAYING TREE TOPS 



that face before. Eyes of brown, 

 and full red cheeks, and hair raised 

 over forehead in the mode of the day. 

 I knew from this that she had seen 

 other girls who perhaps wore violets 

 in June. When she returned with 

 the water it came to me suddenly. 

 This is the girl I saw one day, stoop- 

 ing at the spring on the moun- 

 tain side, when I came unobserved 

 through the woods. When I spoke 

 about the coolness of the water, and 

 she said it was from a spring a short 

 distance away, then I knew for a 

 certainty that it was she whom I saw 

 the day when I lay above on the rock 

 and noticed the smoke coming from 

 a chimney hidden among the trees. 

 I remembered, too, that then she 

 wore a flower, and she was thereby 



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