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beams of the full moon, to gather its "leaves of power/' 
printing the dewy sod with noiseless tread, and dreading to 
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look around. And still the cottage by the wood remains, 
as poets tell, with its bee -hives and gushing streams 
" "Whence rapidly, with foot as light 
As young musk roe's, out she flew, 
To cull each shining leaf that grew, 
Beneath the moonlight's hallowing beams." 
Singular varieties occasionally occur, but the specimen in 
oxir fern-book is the most frequent. Though widely dis- 
