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xxiv.

Oh, hide thy knotted knees in fern,

⁠And overlook the chace;
And from thy topmost branch discern
⁠The roofs of Sumner-place.

xxv.

But thou, whereon I carved her name,

⁠That oft hast heard my vows,
Declare when last Olivia came
⁠To sport beneath thy boughs.

xxvi.

"O yesterday, you know, the fair

⁠Was holden at the town;
Her father left his good arm-chair,
⁠And rode his hunter down.

xxvii.

"And with him Albert came on his.

⁠I look'd at him with joy:
As cowslip unto oxlip is,
⁠So seems she to the boy.