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IN BERKSHIRE FIELDS 



forest edge in spring and autumn; but the poplars 

 predominate, and especially on a cloudy day, or a 



Slender olive poplars rising to forest height crowded from behind 

 by the hemlocks of the swamp 



day of hazy sun when the steam of a February thaw 

 is in the air, they march along in ghostly slen- 



