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ELEGIACS.

 

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Low flowing breezes are roaming the broad valley dimmed in the gloaming:
Thoro' the blackstemmed pines only the far river shines.
Creeping through blossomy rushes and bowers of rose-blowing bushes,
Down by the poplar tall rivulets babble and fall.
Barketh the shepherd-dog cheerly; the grasshopper carolleth clearly;
Deeply the turtle coos; shrilly the owlet halloos;