114 THE FLORAL 
JONQUIL. 
A cottage, 
Perched upon the green hill-top, but close 
Environed with a ring of branching elms, 
That overhang the thatch; itself unseen, 
Peeps at the vale below. 
COWPER. 
In some lone cot amid the distant woods, 
Sustained alone by providential Heaven. 
Thomson. 
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