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Q^'llol 



From breezy fields and leafy woods ye come, 



Arrayed in fragrant beauty, to delight 

 With dreams of rural life my city home. 



And please my fancy with your welcome sight. 

 My darling wild flowers, happy friends were we 



When we forgathered in your cool retreats ; 

 Fain would I roam the woods again with thee, 



Far from this weary wilderness of streets. 

 I feel agaia the fragrant summer rains; 



I breathe again the freedom of the hills ; 

 I hear again the music of the lanes ; 



Joys nigh forgot my heart with rapture fills, 

 When in the city's crowded street or lane 

 I haU thee, children of the woods, again. 



J. E. M. 



